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TIL asking someone their Chinese zodiac is considered a polite way to learn their age

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Z8wnv TIL The bezel on a dive watch only turns counterclockwise so that if the bezel is bumped accidentally during a dive it will only move in one direction, subtracting time from the dive and prompting the diver to surface early rather than staying under for too long.
yV4a TIL Al Pacino’s grandparents immigrated to the US from Corleone, Sicily, the same town as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather”
epAeJ TIL Michelle Pfeiffer stayed away from all talk shows to promote her movies for over 15 years. She was on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in the early 1980's and avoided public interviews until 1997 when she appeared on the Rosie O'Donnell show to promote "A Thousand Acres."
8Qlb TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay in which he encouraged scientists to find ways of “improving the odor of human flatulence.”
QJ0rM TIL of Edward Pulaski, a firefighter who in 1910 saved the lives of most of his forty-five man crew by leading them into an abandoned mine shaft when they were surrounded by a wildfire, and then personally stopping the fire from following them despite being badly burned.