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TIL that Apple doesn’t allow villains to use iPhones in movies
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TIL: The world record for longest time spent awake is not 11 days, contrary to popular belief, but 18 days and 21 hours.
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TIL that a penguin has achieved the rank of brigadier general in the Norwegian army.
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TIL "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" is an insult used to refer to French people. It first appeared in the Simpsons (1995) when Willy says "Bonjoooouuurrr, ya cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys" to a French class. The term has since entered two Oxford Quotation Dictionaries.
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TIL that some flowering plants have evolved parabolic floral structures that act as "sound beacons" to be acoustically detectable for echo-locating bats
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TIL The Vatican City is home to the world’s only ATM that gives instructions in Latin.