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TIL Mel Blanc’s tombstone reads; “That’s all folks!”

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9EaX TIL that there is an old Finnish unit of measurement used by the Sami people called ‘poronkusema’ which translates to “a reindeer piss”. It’s the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate.
Kv5w TIL Sam Jackson had the same amount of screen time in Pulp Fiction as John Travolta yet was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar while Travolta got nominated for Best Actor.
eovg TIL of Equatorial Guinea’s 1975 Christmas Eve massacre, in which roughly 150 political dissenters were executed in a stadium by soldiers wearing Santa Claus costumes to the tune of Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were the Days.”
l8PA TIL Metallica’s Lars Ulrich announced that Metallica’s music is available for free streaming on Spotify. Which was founded by the same man who founded Napster. Sean Parker
xVebw TIL "Motivated Reasoning" is why you can't change someone's mind on the Internet. Techniques include identity-protective cognition (being dismissive of uncomfortable ideas) biased assimilation (only remembering supporting ideas) and biased information search (staying in a bubble).