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TIL a majority of the people Christopher Walken interacted with as a child were non-native English speakers, including his father. Walken attributes his unique halting speaking style to watching people hesitate to think of the right English word.

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8eQ4 TIL that in 2010 security researchers were invited to try to tamper with an Internet voting pilot. Within 36 hours they had made the website play the Michigan fight song and changed all the votes to write-ins for various fictional robots and computers.
PDpG TIL Leland Stanford hired photographer Eadweard Muybridge to prove that a horse lifts all four legs in the air while galloping. In the process, Muybridge invented the motion picture on a farm that would become Stanford University.
wLyRW TIL on 9/11 one stairwell within the South Tower remained accessible after impact. Obscured by smoke and fire, most above the impact zone believed the stairs destroyed and headed to the roof hoping for a helicopter rescue. Only four people among them realized the stairs were accessible and escaped.
Ldwr TIL In the 1920s a new species of hominid was discovered in China and given to the United States during WW2 to protect it from the Japanese. The nearly 200 fossils went missing during the attack on Pearl Harbor and have not been seen since.
YpmZr TIL Sigmund Freud wrote that there are only seven jokes or wit that have ever been written: Absurdity, allusion, comparison, exaggeration, faulty thinking, word-play and reproach