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TIL of Gate Control Theory which explains how rubbing an injury closes nerve gates and in turn reduces pain.

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B4Zd TIL Ghost Busters Dan Aykroyd is slightly autistic. His obsession with the police and ghost hunters was the inspiration for Ghost Busters. He was diagnosed with autism back in the 1980s when his wife asked him to get it checked out. He also had Tourette’s as a kid, but overcame it with therapy.
PY5oL TIL that Robert Smith (singer/guitarist of The Cure) played the piano as a child, but his younger sister Janet was a piano prodigy so he switched to the guitar because "she couldn't get her fingers around the neck." Janet later married Cure guitarist Porl Thompson and played on Cure side projects.
oRWyo TIL the 2024 Summer Olympics will include a breakdancing competition.
REm9 TIL the goofy stereotypical “uniform” of french people (striped shirt, cap and red scarf) is inspired by the uniforms of “Apaches” violent gangs from Paris in the early 20th century who garroted their victims to rob them.
nDrP TIL there are tilted windows in Vermont called “witch windows”. The name appears to come from a superstition that witches cannot fly their broomsticks through the tilted windows.