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TIL when someone has a similar appearance, and specifically, a similar face, it is a powerful cue for feelings of trustworthiness. It invokes feelings of kinship.

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XE5oj TIL about the whistling language called Sylbo. Native to the Canary Islands, Sylbo is thousands of years old and developed as a means for inhabitants of La Gomera to communicate across deep ravines and narrow valleys.
GAYlj TIL that Hollywood actress Merle Oberon was an Anglo-India born Mumbai, making her the first South Asian ever to be nominated for an Oscar
x6k7 TIL that in America, 350 slices of pizza are sold every second.
yQWeV TIL that in 1974 the 1946 movie "It's A Wonderful Life" fell into public domain because the studio failed to renew it's copyright. As a result, it was aired a lot, which explains why it became so popular even though it flopped in theaters. The studio got rights to the movie again in 1993
8ek0X TIL an 8 year old can compose an Opera called, "The Sweeper of Dreams"