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TIL That shuffles music playlists aren’t truly random because it would feel less random to humans.

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X0X8R TIL newborn babies can contract herpes via contact with a person suffering from a cold sore and this is fatal in some cases.
lGQG TIL Hans Zimmer wrote the score for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar based off a one page letter about “what it means to be a father.”
E6j7 TIL that D.W. Griffiths, who made the racist pro-KKK film “The Birth of a Nation”, responded to his critics with subsequent films that preached social justice and the first ever movie about an interracial love story.
1kl4 TIL that German luxury brand, Hugo Boss AG, in 1934-1935 advertised itself as the, “supplier of national socialist uniforms” In 1946, its founder, Hugo Boss, was fined 70k and stripped of his voting rights for being a beneficiary of Nazism.
NBxP TIL WD-40 was originally designed to protect the exterior of Atlas Missiles from water and corrosion. It worked so well that employees started to sneak it home to use on other things.