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TIL Toto - Africa is about "A white boy that is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV"

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PY67e TIL that a clapperboard - that square hinged device that you clap the top of at the start of filming a scene - is clapped in frame like that to make it easier to sync the audio and video when editing it later.
Mr0A TIL, that to prove stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria and not stress, Barry Marshall drank bacterium, developed stomach ulcers, and won the Nobel peace price in medicine.
P1pjL TIL that after large animals went extinct, such as the mammoth, avocados had no method of seed dispersal, which would have lead to their extinction without early human farmers.
yOje TIL that nipple stimulation increases sexual arousal in 81.5% of women compared to just 51.7% of men
oR4NE TIL of the “American Plan.” From the 1910s through the 1950s, thousands of American women were detained and forcibly examined for STIs.