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r/todayilearned - TIL that millennials add a barely perceptible pause that is present at the start of some recorded videos, called the Millennial Pause, prevailing theory is that Zoomers can trust their device to start recoding immediately whereas... www.reddit.com
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TIL not long after the Vietnam War, Vietnam’s army invaded Cambodia and stopped a genocide. www.reddit.com
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Go to todayilearned by TIL the ending of "The Bourne Supremacy" was reshot just two weeks before its release. Director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon came up with a new idea that would cost $200,000 and involve pulling Damon from the set of Ocean's 12. #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL about “erotomania”, a rare condition in which patients are deluded into believing that somebody who likely doesn’t know them is infatuated with them. www.reddit.com
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TIL American eugenicists used state fairs to host Fitter Families Contests which judged "human stock" to select the most eugenically fit family. www.reddit.com
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Go to todayilearned by TIL Edward Dando was a legendary thief known for eating -300 oysters and never paying, numerous articles, poems and street ballads were written about him and Charles Dickens compared him to Alexander the Great en.wikipedia. #ifttt #reddit #til
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TIL that Richard Nixon’s daughter married Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandson. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL about Brachycephalus, the world's smallest vertebrate, a frog so small it could sit on the head of a pencil eraser. Their auditory systems have also shrunk: at least two species can't hear their own mating calls. www.reddit.com
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TIL that USPS ships day old baby chicks in the mail www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL English rock band "The Verve" were required to relinquish 100% of their royalties from their hit "Bittersweet Symphony" for using a sample of Andrew Oldham Orchestra's recording of "The Last Time," itself a rendition of The R... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL Even though Lions live in the Savannah the reason they are called king of the Jungle is because the word Jungle comes from a Sanskrit word meaning uninhabited place. Not necessarily a forest www.reddit.com
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TIL that shining lasers at aircraft is a criminal offense and can impose civil penalties of up to $11,000 per violation. www.reddit.com
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TIL that French uses « » as quotation marks instead of " " www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL just like in the Tarantino film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, Sharon Tate really did have a habit of going barefoot in Los Angeles. When she went to restaurants with a "No Shoes, No Service" rule, she would frequently put ... www.reddit.com
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Go to todayilearned by TIL that in the early 20th Century, Chicken was considered a spring delicacy in the USA, raised seasonally by Farm Wives. Then during WWII, red meat was heavily rationed and Chicken Farming became industrialized. In 1930, average Americans ate 10 lbs of Chicken annually. #ifttt #reddit #til
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Go to todayilearned by TIL: The screenwriters of the 1957 film "Bridge on the River Kwai" were on the Hollywood blacklist, so the non-english speaking author of the book the film was based on was credited as the screenwriter instead. The film won an academy award for screenwriting. en.wikipedia. #ifttt #reddit #til
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r/todayilearned - TIL that First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, disliked the Kennedys. Mamie did not inform Jacqueline of a wheelchair available for her during a White House tour. Kennedy remained composed during the tour but collapsed once home. When que... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL In 2007, John Galvan and two others were serving a life sentence when he saw a MythBusters' episode "Hollywood on Trial." which debunks a cigarette igniting gasoline. In Chicago, 1986, John was forced to sign a false confessi... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL The painting The Gate of Calais (1748) features the artist, William Hogarth, about to be arrested. This is included in the painting since Hogarth was arrested in Calais because his sketching was mistaken for espionage. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL about Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a medicine used in the early 1900s to quiet infants and teething children. Popular in the US and UK it took twenty years of doctors' complaints before it was withdrawn from the market for ... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that Jess Willard who defeated Jack Johnson for the heavyweight title in 1915, was a very gentle man who had to wait for his opponent to punch him, so he could feel justified in punching back. www.reddit.com
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TIL Human Brains make up the color yellow from what we see as overlapping red and green. Humans simply can’t see the color yellow directly. www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL about Peter Brough, a British ventriloquist with a hugely popular 1940s and 50s radio show. His radio success prompted a move to TV in 1956, which killed his career when his fans realised you could see his lips moving. A late... www.reddit.com
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r/todayilearned - TIL that the character Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager was named after a the robot character AF709 in the 1960's sitcom "My Living Doll." AF709 was played by Julie Newmar. www.reddit.com
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