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TIL that Amazon owns IMDB and is used to sell their movies.

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L7Rm TIL that the only country in the world where women cannot vote is Vatican City
aKky TIL that a manufacturing defect saved a mobster’s life. A car bomb detonated under Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal’s 1981 Cadillac Eldorado, but GM installed a metal plate under the driver’s seat in that model to correct its balance, protecting him from the explosion. (‘Casino’ (1995) depicts the bombing.)
ldB5 TIL a 2011 study showed schizophrenic patients perform significantly better at certain logical tasks than normal controls by utilizing intrinsic quantum-like logic.
R5Lxj TIL that sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins. Sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes and are actually very good swimmers.
QJv7X TIL from 1979 to 1992, Soviets drilled a super deep bore (Kola Superdeep Borehole) that reached 40,230 ft, just to see how deep they could drill.