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9YyaQ TIL that computerized software that can read lips from video footage has allowed reconstruction of the dialogue in Eva Braun's silent home movies of Hitler at the Berghof.
N7QKQ TIL That the first novel ever, "The Tale of Genji" was written by a woman
ep0ZD TIL the mineral Lime will glow white after being heated, and that’s the reason for the term “In the limelight”
kJBk7 TIL: Howard Hughes invented the prototype pushup bra because he was obsessed with Jane Russell's chest
y0la TIL that the Illiad and the Odyssey are just two parts out of an eight-part epic, but the other six parts have been almost entirely lost to history