Today I Learned (TIL)

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TIL that Fecal transplant actually exist. (www.webmd.com)

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TIL that Stephen King decided on the location for the Shining, by opening an atlas and randomly pointing at a location, which happened to be Boulder, Colorado. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that between one-half and two-thirds of European immigrants to the Thirteen Colonies between the 1630s and the American Revolution came as indentured servants (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL the music video for Michael Jackson's 'Bad' was directed by Martin Scorsese. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL of the Overtoun Bridge in Scotland. A place where dogs throw themselves off a fifty foot drop onto rocks at the rate of one to two per month. Some that don't die, climb back up for another go. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL: That the actor Tom Hanks is distant cousin of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln. Hanks also narrated a 2011 documentary about the former President, entitled Killing Lincoln. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL most Japanese people eat sushi with their hands (cobosushi.com)

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TIL about the Streisand effect, phenomenon in which an attempt to censor, hide, or otherwise draw attention away from something only serves to attract more attention to it. (www.britannica.com)

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TIL that Kermit the Frog was inducted into the Library of Congress in their National Recording Registry for his song "The Rainbow Connection." (www.loc.gov)

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TIL Old Sarum, an unhabited hamlet, was represented in the English and later British Parliament until 1832 (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that audiences were so convinced that the film "The Battle of Algiers" was newsreel that the American distributors put a notice that "not one foot" of newsreel was used (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that EA makes $420 millon/year off of the Sims 4 (www.netbet.co.uk)

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TIL that undefeated heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano’s punch was tested by Boxing Illustrated in 1963, and found to have more explosive energy than an armour piercing bullet. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that despite the frequent assertion that lesbian relationships have the highest DV the source data paints a different picture. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Madonna turned down a role in The Matrix, one of the biggest regrets of her career (www.billboard.com)

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TIL Richard Simmons has never actually publicly discussed his sexuality (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that between 2008 and 2010, the Iraqi government were scammed into spending over $40 million on fake bomb detectors - the ADE 651 (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL a 2017 study found that 73 attacks by wild polar bears on humans occurred between 1870-2014, which resulted in 20 human deaths and 63 human injuries. (www.cnn.com)

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TIL that 3.6% of all current cancer cases worldwide are attributable to drinking alcohol (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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TIL of the Vadoma, a tribe in Zimbabwe in which a substantial minority have two toes on each feet which may have evolved as a trait to assist in tree climbing (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that Will Smith turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix to star in Wild, Wild West (ew.com)

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TIL that a juvenile orca started a fashion trend of wearing dead salmon as a hat and the whole group started wearing them. (www.yahoo.com)

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TIL Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel wrote off 10% of their money annually due to soilage because it would lie untouched for so long that rats would eat it or it would become water damaged. (www.dailyrecord.co.uk)

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TIL that Apple designs and tests its product boxes so that they open at just the right speed (www.fastcompany.com)

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TIL that in 1968, students at the University of Colorado named their new cafeteria after Alfred Packer, a notorious self-confessed cannibal in Colorado history. (en.wikipedia.org)

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