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TIL The creator of Firefox works on the Google Chrome team

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j9pX TIL that blind people smile even tho they have never seen anybody else smile. Smiling is due to our human genes and not the learning in our youth
JYZM4 TIL about a swimming pool which was built in middle of Mojave desert, as an art installation, the location to which was not released to public. Users had to get the keys to the pool from MAK center in West Hollywood, who would provide the GPS coordinates to the pool.
rRm94 TIL that there are no female leprechauns in Irish folklore.
Gn6J TIL that Jake Lloyd (Young Anakin Skywalker) retired from acting, destroyed all of his Star Wars memorabilia, and refuses to watch any of the movies because he finds them too “creepy”.
wLnW7 TIL African Americans made up a significant portion of the Continental army fighting the British in the American Revolution. At the Siege of Yorktown, one German officer estimated the American army to be about one-quarter black.