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Today I Learned (TIL)

r/todayilearned

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Posted by13 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

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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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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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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TIL The first Marvel film was…Howard the Duck

collider.com/howard...

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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 one of the paintings used as set dressing for the home in the film Stuart Little was a long lost 1920s painting by Róbert Berény, Sleeping Lady with Black Vase. The painting wasn’t identified for a decade after the films release, when an art historian was watching the film with his daughter.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

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