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TIL that Jim Carey absolutely hated filming “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”

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86kP TIL The Pennsylvania Dutch aren’t actually Dutch, they are German. Upon arrival, they were saying “Deutsch” which is German for, well, German. Germany in the their native language is “Deutschland.” English speaking Americans just assumed they were saying “Dutch.”
6DkX TIL in 2014, US law enforcement took $4.5 billion from citizens who were never charged with a crime; more than US burglars stole in the same year
gMQwy TIL Some fungi create zombies, then control their minds. The tropical fungus Ophiocordyceps infects ants’ central nervous systems. By the time the fungi been in the insect bodies for nine days, they have complete control over the host’s movements.
rRxpd TIL: The mouse was invented and patented by Doug Engelbart in 1963, though when asked who named it he said “No one can remember. It just looked like a mouse with a tail, and we all called it that.” The wire “tail” originally came out under the user’s wrist.
MedAa TIL that James Webb ran NASA in the 1960’s and pushed for a balance between space flight and science. He wrote in 1965 that a major space telescope should be pursued.