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TIL that court reporters “keyboards” only have 22 keys yet they can type well over 225 wpm

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JY6ak TIL Stephen Colbert’s father and 2 brothers died in a plane crash when he was 10. His improv teacher told him “you gotta learn to love the bomb” and as a result, years later he came to realize “I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.”
mx50P TIL that the 1995 comedy “Clueless” staring Alicia Silverstone is a retelling of Jane Austin’s novel “Emma” which was published in 1815.
x6lwD TIL The film Baby Driver was inspired by Noel Fielding's performance in a Mint Royale music video
xVPGk TIL After South Park aired the episode Chef Aid, the term 'Chewbacca Defense' entered the legal lexicon. The legal strategy aims to deliberately confuse juries than refute cases. The practice was widely used by lawyers before the episode, but South Park gave it a term.
QJNVX Finland’s Lapland is home to over twenty thousand reindeer, but with thousands killed every year due to vehicle collisions in the dark, herders now cover the animals’ antlers with a harmless fluorescent paint that glows in the light of oncoming cars but is otherwise invisible. both female and male reindeer in Lapland grow antlers, which they shed in the spring, so a new coating is reapplied in the fall.