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TIL that the term 'intellectual' (as in, the noun, 'an intellectual') was coined to describe the debates surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, the famous scandal of a Jewish French soldier falsely convicted of treason

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Z8kNG Til that killer whales are such apex predators they hunt and kill terrestrial mammals such as moose and deer, When swimming between islands in North America
Mrla TIL that the 2 ancient cities in China were drowned in 1959 by a man-made lake and were forgotten about until discovered in 2001 by a tourist diving company. The cities remain intact and in good condition.
kO5eg TIL that names like escalator, heroin, flip phone, and videotape where all once trademarked before they were genericized which is when a trademark becomes so important and synonymous with a type of product that it becomes a generic term
EgkLd TIL after making the hit movie Poltergeist, director Tobe Hooper went on to direct the MTV music video for Billy Idol’s ‘Dancing With Myself’. Tobe Hooper said the video is loosely based on the 1971 movie ‘The Omega Man’.
kNJB TIL in the original Game of Life board game “Suicide” was a possible outcome.