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TIL that Comcast has won the “Worst Company in America” award twice, first in 2010 and second in 2014.

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e7QE TIL that elephants walk on their tiptoes
N7XJ TIL that filmmaker Richard Linklater has been working on a 12 year film since 2002, filming a fictional narrative of a boy growing up, as the boy really grows up
XKgj TIL of the brain-eating amoeba, which lives in fresh water and kills unsuspecting swimmers every year by entering their bodies through the nose and consuming their brain tissue.
1aDaD TIL: "The Momsen Lung" was a device used in World War 2 to escape submarines over 100ft deep. It recycled oxygen in your breath while filtering C02. It was used only once, in 1944, by 9 members of the USS Tang after it torpedoed itself and sank in 180 feet of water
yVAp TIL the opening shot in Bond films was actually filmed through the barrel of a gun