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TIL “Kiss and Cry” is the name for the area where figure skaters await the announcement of their performance score

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PYZvZ TIL One of the first recorded applications for a closed circuit television system (CCTV) was back in 1942 in Nazi Germany, where it was used to monitor the launch of V2 rockets.
9YwVG TIL that Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran was well-known for calling the US the "Great Satan". He also called the Soviet Union the "Lesser Satan" and Israel "Little Satan".
YpQvv TIL that some, but not all, horses have canine teeth. The males normally have a full set of 4, whereas fewer than 28% of the females may only have 1 or 2.
dAD9 TIL the whip is the first man made device capable of breaking the sound barrier. Also, the crack of the whip is actually a sonic boom.
QJyx6 TIL the dodo bird was not unintelligent but simply evolved docile behavior in response to a lack of predator on its native island of Mauritius. Humans took advantage of this behavior, haunted it to extinction, and then made it a universally recognized symbol of unintelligence.