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TIL the boring, monotone lecture Ben Stein delivers in Ferris Bueller was originally meant to be off-camera, but the student extras laughed so hard at his voice that John Hughes decided to shoot it. It was a topic that Stein actually knew a lot about, supply-side economics, and it was improvised.

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wRN7 TIL the world’s longest place name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one”.
5Y8Ar TIL that the company John Downer Productions makes ultra realistic animal robots to go out into the wild. The robots are able to mimic how the variant of animal would normally act and most of the time gets accepted into that animals group/tribe.
wxl8 TIL that in 1978 France rolled out a pre-World Wide Web online service (MiniTel) that gave it’s users access to online shopping, search engines, cybersex, message boards etc … France Telecom only retired the service in 2012 after 30 years and 800 000 units still in use.
NJae TIL That, over the course of 144 episodes, only one character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer died of natural causes. The following episode, which examines Buffy’s mourning/reaction to the first death she couldn’t have prevented, is consistently ranked as one of the best television episodes of all time.
W7ePX TIL that the Financial Modeling World Cup is a competition for Excel enthusiasts who solve real-world case studies by creating financial models, with a $25,000 prize purse.