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TIL that the words "corroborate" and "corroboree" are completely unrelated.

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D1Agj TIL Japanese train drivers and conductors "point and call" at all important signs and warnings. As it turns out, research conducted in 1994 by the Railway Technical Research Institute found that the combination of pointing and calling reduced mistakes by almost 85 percent.
OoB7 TIL some paleo-art historians believe that ancient cave art (Lascaux, Chauvet, etc) was meant to be viewed with flickering flames as lighting, giving the images an appearance of motion. This may have been humankind’s first ever cinematic “animation”.
7rpGO TIL that the term Peanut Gallery came from Vaudeville days when the audience in cheapest and rowdiest seats in the theater often ate peanuts and sometimes threw them at the performers.
R5pn9 TIL that the Peacock Mantis Shrimp can deliver punches at speeds of up to 80 km/h
4XVLN TIL the last words of American murderer Robert Alton Harris. “You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper.”