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Today I learned that George Jetson was born in 2022. Welcome to the future.

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M7gxm TIL that even though the Minions from “Despicable Me” speak a fictitious language, they are re-dubbed for each language the films are released in so that their speech patterns are recognizable to the audience.
xWeo TIL even the US President doesn’t necessarily have access to all Top Secret information unless there is a demonstrated “need-to-know.”
ADgWx TIL Freud never cured a single patient, saw psychoanalysis largely as a way to make money and once told a patient her sore throat was a symptom of her unconscious desire to suck her father's penis
X0XDk TIL Low-background steel is steel produced prior to the detonation of the nuclear bombs. Typically sourced from old shipwrecks, it is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout
oR748 TIL the Placebo effect can still be observed even if the person is told they are receiving a placebo