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TIL that the DCIM folder in your camera stands for “Digital Camera IMages”.

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E15ZV TIL Vito Corleone’s cat in The Godfather was a stray that Coppola found in Paramount lot.It purred so loudly that some of Marlon Brando’s dialogue had to be dubbed.
4Xj9N TIL, Ming-Na Wen who is well known for role as Dr. Jing-Mei Chen in ER, was pregnant with her first child in 2000. As a result, she continued to act and her pregnancy was written into the E.R. script, with her character giving up the child for adoption, following her child's birth on November 2000.
MewE0 TIL The Stratton Oakmont firm (of Wolf of Wall Street fame) sued Prodigy ISP for a post on their forums discussing potential fraud surrounding the IPO of Solomon Page Ltd.
nW9xP TIL Forcing your eyes to work harder doesn’t increase the strength of eye muscles so wearing lenses doesn’t increase your dependence on glasses. if one eye is weaker, your brain is trained to use the stronger eye and the weaker eye could turn into lazy eye
8alxL TIL that actress Joan Barry (blood type A) sued Charlie Chaplin (blood type O) for support of a child (blood type B) whom she claimed he fathered. Although it was not possible that the child was Chaplin's, he was still ordered to pay until the child turned 21.