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TIL Anderson Cooper has no formal training as a journalist and interned at the CIA before taking up the profession

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xOJw TIL that in 2014 Toshiba has repurposed its floppy disk factory, that hasn’t been used for nearly two decades into a vegetable farm
16klV TIL that "U and non-U English" was a British theory of dialects in the 1950s that noted that the aspiring middle classes actually used "more refined" language than the upper classes - like "pardon?" instead of "what?", and to "pass on" instead of to "die"
4XmJJ TIL acts of bestiality appear several times in European cave art, with the oldest depiction being from a cave in Portugal dating back to the Paleolithic period.
Xny6 TIL The O'Reilly Factor is the #1 Cable News Program in America, however, the median age of viewers is 72 years old.
EgKvp TIL a survey found that 46% of men were either very confident (20%) or somewhat confident (26%) that they could land a passenger plane by themselves in an emergency situation, as long as they could talk to air traffic control. Only 20% of women felt the same (7% very confident, 13% somewhat).