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TIL that "historians have determined that nearly 50 percent of the population of Sicily and southern Italy has Italian Jewish roots and was once Jewish."

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wLZE1 TIL Bill Gates predicts that the growth of instructional software will replace textbooks. However, in a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books
MWda TIL while touring The Magnificent 7 Denzel Washington was pressured by a writer for political quotes. Denzel said “You’re in the fortunate position of being able to research and take your time. But with clickbait it doesn’t even need to be true. It just has to be first.” Nothing political was said.
eyXk TIL that while Steven Spielberg was watching Jurassic Park audition videos at home, Ariana Richards’ sounded so terrified on her recording that Spielberg’s napping wife jumped up to make sure her children were okay. Richards got the part.
Znvp TIL when congress asked physicist R.R. Wilson to justify the US government spending millions of dollars on a new particle accelerator (Fermilab), Wilson testified that the knowledge gained from it would have “nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.”
xVELw TIL that everyone is actually blind in one part of their vision, and you can easily see this in action right now with a simple test. The cause is nerve fibers blocking the retina, and your brain just fills in this spot with surrounding images, so you don't normally notice it.