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TIL John Krasinski fought for a deaf actress Millicent Simmonds to be cast in 'A Quiet Place'; she taught everyone sign language on set. (www.huffpost.com)

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TIL there once was a footballer who got shot because of a prank (www.gentlemanultra.com)

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TIL I learned the origins of ampersand (&), the variations beginning from 2,000 BC, and its usage around the world. It is amongst one of the most popular symbols written on Earth. (youtu.be)

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TIL that the US had something called “ugly laws” (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that part of Batman's iconic look is partly inspired by the villain from the film The Bat Whispers (1930) According to Bob Kane on of the creators of Batman (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL the most infamous form of the lobotomy was not the original technique. (www.britannica.com)

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TIL That the singer of the Peanut Butter Jelly Time song has always been credited to the wrong person. (youtu.be)

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TIL that in 1932, Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist, made fun of Hitler’s bigotry by publishing a satire article “proving” that Hitler was Mongolian. Later, Gerlich was taken to Dachau and murdered. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL Roman Emperor Claudius Augustus had crazy gas and loved it! (www.purplemotes.net)

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TIL Tony Hawk’s son is married to Kurt Cobain’s daughter (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL William Howard Taft, the heaviest ever US President, eventually lost much of his excess weight (www.history.com)

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TIL that NASA lost a $330m Mars Orbiter in 1999, immediately before mars orbit was achieved, because one of the contracted US companies used imperial units instead of metric. (everydayastronaut.com)

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TIL that US airlines are legally required to refund a ticket within 24 hours of purchase, no matter if the ticket type was refundable or not. (www.transportation.gov)

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TIL The first vending machine was invented in 1st century CE Egypt to dispense holy water. The next widely known vending machine was invented 1,800 years later in Victorian England. (www.atlasobscura.com)

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TIL Australia is the lowest and flattest continent in the world with an average elevation of only 1000 feet due to being near the centre of a tectonic plate (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

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TIL there is a massive abandoned underground command network throughout the former Yugoslavia. One of these was the NORAD equivalent. (youtu.be)

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TIL That the symbol ^ is called a "caret" not a "carrot", from the Latin meaning "it lacks" (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL About King Kahekili of Maui, and about how he Tatooed half his body black and nearly beat Kamehameha at Uniting the Hawaiian islands (www.shakaguide.com)

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TIL that DC refused to let the TV show "Harley Quinn" air a scene of Batman giving oral to Catwoman because they said "Heroes don't do that" (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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TIL Benjamin Franklin used to sit around naked for extended periods to take air baths (www.historyoasis.com)

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TIL that the Iraqi transport minister caused controversy during an inauguration of an airport by claiming that the world's first airport was built 7,000 years ago in Iraq by ancient Sumerians (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL that Natural Spirit charges $2 for a single can of their sparkling water but charges $12 for four of them. (enjoynaturalspirit.com)

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TIL of the burials of Hawaiian chiefs and Sacred burial Practices of the Ancient Native Hawaiians (www.hawaiianburials.com)

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TIL of the 19th century Dine and Dasher Edward Dando, who became a celebrity for going on repeat eating sprees without ever paying. (en.wikipedia.org)

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TIL male Orchid Bees collect fragrances solely for the purposes of olfactory display to woo females; they are the only species known to do this. (en.wikipedia.org)

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