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TIL that in African thought, a person lives on as long as they’re remembered. In Sasha and Zamani concept, the “living-dead” stay alive in memory until the last person who remembers them dies.

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a87gJ TIL That MAS*H episode ''Lend A Hand'' (Season 8, Episode 20) starred not only the main character Alan Alda, but also his father Robert Alda and his brother Anthony Alda with the three of them sharing the screen at the same time.
Vg6Q TIL that because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
kOeMe TIL scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human, and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.
nWl5W TIL trash bags were only invented in 1950, so there are plenty of people alive who predate them, and who may have grown up without them.
ZNZG TIL that in 2015 a man called into C-SPAN and began talking about West Philadelphia, and got all the way through the first two stanzas of the “Fresh Prince” theme song before being cut off