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TIL Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks watch a lot of movies together, but only movies that contain the phrase “secure the perimeter.”

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R7NA1 TIL that a Greek man named Heron Alexandrinus, who was born in 10AD, invented the first steam engine, called an Aeolipile. His design was forgotten and never used until 1577.
ANkZw TIL we can inherit traits from our parents and even emotions like fear. From Science, a recent study "found that heritable changes in plant flowering time and other traits were the result of epigenetics alone."
eKaL TIL the Soviet Union under Lenin and Trotsky was the world’s first country that decriminalized homosexuality and abortion
6EbwJ TIL Owls don't have eyeballs, they have eye tubes.
O5m4 TIL The ceremony of the keys at the Tower of London has gone on almost uninterrupted for 700 years. It was late once during WWII due to a number of bombs hitting the guard room, knocking the guards and Yeoman warder over. The officer in charge personally wrote a letter to the king to apologise.