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TIL Captain America’s TO-DO list from Winter Soldier is different depending on what country you were watching it in

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BrwDk TIL that legendary video game composer Nobuo Uematsu is completely self-taught, and thought making video game music would be a fun side job.
nbyr TIL the phrase ‘duck’, used in cricket to mean a score of zero, is short for 'duck’s egg’, referring to the shape of the number. 'Goose-egg’ is prevalent in U.S English while the French equivalent 'l'oeuf’ (egg) is the origin of 'love’, meaning zero in tennis.
5YjD8 TIL that gum disease can be associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and that Alzheimer’s is associated with markers from oral bacterium P. gingivalis
Dw0P TIL “Circlejerk” is a term used to describe an oligarchy that is “self-perpetuated by members granting each other disproportionate rewards for work that is of limited merit”
woA7M TIL around 2500 BC, a 140 foot long ship was buried in pieces in a pit near the Great Pyramid. It was found in 1954 and the 1,224 fragments were assembled recently. Khufu’s Solar Boat "sailed" again in 2021 when it was moved by a special vehicle to the Grand Egyptian Museum.