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TIL Japan is offering smiling classes because some people forgot how to do so during the pandemic

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loLJ5 TIL that Hideo Kojima named Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich after Independence Day director Roland Emmerich
Lrpm TIL In 1986, there were plans to put Big Bird on the space shuttle, to encourage kids to get interested in space. There wasn’t enough room for the puppet, and Caroll Spinney, who portrays the 8-foot-2 bird, was replaced by a teacher. It was for a seat on the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger.
9YPXG TIL that at the Hoover dam construction the first worker death was that of J. G. Tierney and the last death was that of his son Patrick Tierney which came 14 years after the death of his father
8ag0G TIL 43% of NHS’ (UK) doctors are Indian or of Indian origin
nWWrB TIL bulls are not the only cattle born with horns. most cattle are debudded as calves.