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TIL that 3% of all movies in the 1960s featureed quicksand

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Y1EG TIL Lego designed the holes in minifigure heads to allow kids to keep breathing if they become stuck in their throat
EMOx TIL Anthony Hopkins’s inspiration for Hannibal Lecter was a cat. “…I sort of modeled my walk on a cat’s. I like cats, and I love the way they pad around. I wanted to get that feel when Lecter is padding very quietly and stealthily in the shadows around the streets of Florence.”
a84kA TIL The United States came to the aid of North Korea to fend off a pirate attack in 2007 off the coast of Mogadishu
xVmyw TIL when the first gene was isolated at Harvard in 1969, "The only reason the news was released to the press was to emphasize its negative aspects," rather than the potential advantages we see today
XEapR TIL the word "robot" was coined 100 years ago and comes from the Czech word "robota," which means "drudgery" or "servitude"