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TIL that a one-way mirror is also called a two-way mirror.

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yVKw TIL that the Angel falls, the highest waterfall in the world, was named after Jimmy Angel, a US pilot who crash landed in Venezuela and was searching for his way back to civilization.
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rNO9o TIL: To "protect the truth," a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. Her archives grew to about 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in her home and apartments she rented to store them. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed to digitize the volumes.
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