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TIL 10 Cloverfield Lane was adapted from a script called The Cellar that was unrelated to the movie Cloverfield.

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TIL German filmmaker Werner Herzog made a short film called Game in the Sand (1964) that he refuses to release because filming “got out of hand”.

Game in the Sand - Wikipedia

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TIL Beaver anal secretions have been used as a vanilla flavor substitute for certain foods and luxury cosmetics.

VICE

A History of Flavoring Food With Beaver Butt Juice

No, castoreum is not a cheap substitute for strawberries; it’s luxe, artisanal secretions from a beaver's rear end.

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TIL aboriginal cannibals were said to prefer the taste of Chinese people over Europeans, "because their rice-fed flesh tasted better than the salty flesh of the beef fed whites."

Aboriginal cannibalism

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TIL of Quintus Quincy Quigley, the founder of Paducah, Kentucky

Quintus Quincy Quigley - Wikipedia

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TIL the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Mona Lisa - Wikipedia

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TIL that Nintendo was founded in 1889.

BBC Newsround

History of Nintendo: Where did Nintendo come from?

Over a century ago, a small card company in the Japanese city of Kyoto was created. Little did anyone know what the legacy of that card company wou...

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TIL that tiny pocket in blue jeans was intended to hold a pocket watch

Encyclopedia Britannica

Why Do Jeans Have That Tiny Pocket? | Britannica

Answering the important questions about pants.

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TIL (from a YouTube video from The Paint Explainer) Warnock's dilemma is the explication of why there is no sure way to understand why nobody comments on community post you made.

Warnock's dilemma - Wikipedia

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TIL Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant who speaks 10 languages, described how numbers appear to him in terms of shape, color, and texture. For him, 289 is ugly, 333 is attractive, and pi is beautiful.

Daniel Tammet - Wikipedia

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TIL between 1978 and 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Out of 31 officials who were tested, 12 accepted the bribe and were convicted

Federal Bureau of Investigation

ABSCAM | Federal Bureau of Investigation

On February 2, 1980, the world learned of our high-level investigation into public corruption and organized crime, infamously code-named ABSCAM.

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TIL there is desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate has been kept filled with candy since 1965. It’s called the ‘Candy Desk’.

Candy Desk - Wikipedia

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TIL that Hitler ensured the safety of his Jewish family doctor Eduard Bloch (who treated Hitler's mother for breast cancer at reduced cost). He was allowed to emigrate to the US in 1940.

Eduard Bloch - Wikipedia

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TIL that more academic papers have been written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer than any other popular culture phenomenon.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Wikipedia

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TIL in 1184, 60 noblemen died after a wooden floor collapsed in a church, causing them to fall into a "latrine cesspit" (liquid shit) which hadn't been emptied for a while. Their cause of death was drowning.

Toilets of the World

The Erfurt Latrine Disaster

That Time When Sixty Members of Nobility Died in a Latrine Disaster — A blog about toilets

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TIL there is a cheese called Pantysgawn

Pantysgawn - Wikipedia

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TIL people used to do their laundry in Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park. They would put their clothes in the geyser and it would erupt with clean clothes.

Old Faithful - Wikipedia

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TIL that pineapples do not grow on trees, but on the ground

farmsandfarmer24.com - All Bangla News for the World, its about poultry, dairy, agriculture, fishing, farms and farmer related news site.

আনারস চাষ করবেন যেভাবে - farmsandfarmer24.com

আনারস অত্যন্ত সুস্বাদু ও পুষ্টিকর ফল। টিনজাত খাদ্য হিস�...

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TIL Costco purposefully designed their store without signs to force people to wander through all the aisles and find things to buy. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/25/443519599/episode-653-the-anti-store?Ujc #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eax3gi/til_costco_purposefully_designed_their_store/

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TIL the Abenaki word for "white man" awanoch is a combination of the words awani meaning "who" and uji meaning "from". Thus, the word for "white man" literally translates to "Who is this man and where does he come from?"

Abenaki - Wikipedia

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