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TIL of the Pay It Forward Principle. This involves doing a good deed for three people and asking each of them do a good deed for three people and so on. After only 21 repetitions of this all 7.4 billion people on the planet would be reached by such a scheme.

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XxYD TIL the dinosaurs featured in the film Pee Wee’s Big Adventure are now part of a Creationist Museum that claims the earth is around 6,000 years old.
4XRR TIL that the makers of those anti-piracy, “You wouldn’t steal a car, purse, DVD, etc”, advertisements got sued for actually pirating the music they used for the ad
0d6ly TIL the Allais Effect refers to the allegedly unexpected behavior of pendulums which is observed to occur only during a solar eclipse
GLwj TIL Actor Alan Cumming has his own fragrance, shower gel, moisturizer, and candle called; Cumming, Cumming Clean, Cumming All Over and Cumming in the Air, respectively.
P1AmZ TIL every major computer font - Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman, etc. - is owned by one private equity firm