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Today I Learned (TIL)

r/todayilearned

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Posted by8 hours ago

TIL Andre Agassi won 10 of 11 matches after seeing a "tick" in Boris Becker's serve. Agassi could predict where Becker was serving based on whether Becker stuck his tongue out in the middle of his lip or to the left corner of his lip. Agassi told Becker over a pint of beer - after they retired.

insider.com/andre-...

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Posted by12 hours ago

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TIL in a rare move for a large corporation, SC Johnson voluntarily stopped using Polyvinylidene chloride in saran wrap which made it cling but was harmful to the planet. They lost a huge market share.

blog.suvie.com/why-do...

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Posted by8 hours ago

TIL cows have best friends and they tend to experience lower levels of stress when they’re hanging out with them.

barnsanctuary.org/blog/s...

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Posted by19 hours ago

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TIL Princess Diana didn't initially die at the scene of her car accident, but 5 hours later due to a tear in her heart's pulmonary vein. She would've had 80% chance of survival if she had been wearing her seat belt.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

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Posted by8 hours ago

TIL The first Marvel film was…Howard the Duck

collider.com/howard...

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Posted by7 hours ago

TIL after fighting in WWI, A. A. Milne had PTSD so severe, he was reminded of whizzing bullets by buzzing bees, and cannons firing by balloons popping. Wanting a lighthearted distraction and a way to explain to his son the difficulties of war, he wrote Winnie the Pooh stories as his way of doing so.

editions.covecollective.org/conten...

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Posted by19 hours ago

TIL the guys from Milli Vanilli (Rob & Fab) as well as the original singers were all misled by their record producer in the lip-sync scandal and are the ones that brought it to the press. Rob & Fab were upset they wouldn't let them sing, and the original singers were upset they weren't the stars.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

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