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TIL Dead Skin Cells are a Main Ingredient In Household Dust
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TIL the Titanic's watertight compartments likely caused its rapid sinking by keeping too much water weight in the bow of the boat. Without the compartments, the ship would have remained horizontal and taken several hours to sink allowing nearby ships to rescue all passengers in time.
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TIL that Robert De Niro was so dedicated, to prepare for his roles, he actually gained 60 lbs for Raging Bull, lived in Sicily Italy for The Godfather Part II, ground his teeth for Cape Fear, became a cab driver for Taxi Driver, and learned to play the saxophone for New York, New York.
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TIL when Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs first opened in 1916, the owner hired people to dress as doctors and eat hot dogs outside his shop, to convince people his hot dogs were healthy.
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TIL that the very first technical publication by famed Computer Scientist Donald Knuth was the "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures". It measured Volume in 'ngogn', mass in 'blintz', and time in units of 'clarke'. It was published in of Mad Magazine in 1957, and earned him $25.
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TIL that Oxford University is so old, one of its contituent colleges called “New College” was established in 1379.