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TIL there's a noodle factory in Indonesia that still uses a bull to mill its flour and make the dough

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R5Wl1 TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got less roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.
Z808G TIL The number of men working in a lighthouse in the UK was increased from 2 to 3 following an 1801 incident where one half of a duo died, the other placed him outside and was then driven mad by the wind causing his dead colleagues arm to appear to beckon him.
l8Wa TIL Mamihlapinatapai is considered to be most succinct word, It refers to “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves.”
p80KQ Today I learned the blisters from Poison Oak/Ivy are our immune systems response to the chemical Urushiol and our immune systems cause the cells to blister.
d8QKQ TIL Galileo was a prolific writer of scientific dialogues and the first entirely new translation of his major writings for more than fifty years was only published in 2012