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TIL in computing, half of a byte is called a nibble

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5rk9 TIL that that the X-Mansion from the X-men film series was the same mansion set used in Adam Sandler’s Billy Madison.
m14DO TIL Croissants and Baguettes are not actually French, their origins are actually Viennese. (Austrian)
RQO7 TIL that the fake phone number from “Bruce Almighty”, was actually called by many people who asked “are you God?”. One man with the number was a priest, who would reply “No, but I can take a message”.
6k0l TIL in 1984 the FBI declared the Key West Police Department a criminal enterprise, and several high-ranking officers were arrested for running a protection racket for cocaine smugglers.
MeWNa TIL That in 945, Igor of Kiev, while attempting to collect tributes from the neighboring Drevlians, was murdered by being attached to two bent birch trees, which when released in opposite directions, tore his body in half.