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TIL that Tennessee lawyer/senator/actor Fred Dalton Thompson first got into acting by playing himself

TIL that in China you can go hiking and let robotic legs do the work.

TIL When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

TIL: Washington DC license plates say "End Taxation Without Representation"

TIL I learned a I have a mental disorder; therefore I am qualified for a COVID vaccine

TIL about Adolphe Quetelet, a pioneering statistician who developed the BMI among other things and played a key role in the development of Eugenics

TIL, on this day 50 years ago, Oliver Sipple had saved President Ford by tackling his assassin Sara Jane Moore. He was promptly outed as gay.

TIL: Cookie Monster had a segment series where he and other Sesame Street characters would star in “coming attractions trailer[s]” for movies such as James Bond, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc, etc

TIL these are called container ships because they... ship.. containers

TIL Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

TIL about Ghostarchive, yet another web archiving service

TIL Why Everything Is Suddenly So "Extreme" (How Money Works Video)

TIL day and night hours are not equal on the solar equinox. That happens on the equilux.

TIL CAPTCHA is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"

TIL about Vincent Chin, an American of Chinese descent that was murdered by two white men; the murderers got away with the crime with no jail sentence.

TIL that peak jut is a mountain measure. It takes into account its rise above surroundings and impressiveness, considering both its base-to-peak height and base-to-peak steepness

TIL "Pro-Life in the Streets, Pro-Choice in the Sheets". Disgraced GOP, staunch Pro-life Politian Tim Murphy Coerced Mistress to Abort Affair Baby.

TIL pig Latin got its name because "pig" or "hog" used to mean fake or jokey.

TIL how to discover emotions

TIL the ball washing machine can wash 40,000 ball pit balls in an hour.