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TIL 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress, after only two years of being retired.

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Eo17 TIL Stone Age Europeans are thought to have created brief “gifs”, by drawing two versions of an image, one over the other, on cave walls. The flickering of a torch light would “animate” the image
6EkvZ TIL London Taxi drivers have to memorize ~25,000 streets (called "the Knowledge") in order to get licensed. A 2000 study found that they have larger hippocampi, a part of the brain associated with learning and memory.
7JGO TIL Napoleon demanded a method of communication that would not require light or sound. ‘Night Writing’ was developed as a tactile military code, but proved too difficult for Napoleon’s troops to learn and was rejected. Night writing became the basis for braille.
X0LOR TIL Dennis Rodman changed his image after seeing Wesley Snipes' portrayal of Simon Phoenix in the 1993 sci-fi action flick Demolition Man.
nkAW TIL that “Paris Syndome” is a psychological disorder whereby Japanese tourists visiting Paris for the first time experience such severe culture shock that they become ill.