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TIL that VLC has a keyboard shortcut that lets you fix out of sync audio. Best feature ever.

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69PVQ TIL that Goldfish crackers were invented by Oscar J. Kambly in 1958 in Switzerland to celebrate his wife who was a Pisces. Goldfish's original flavor was Saltine, and was originally introduced to the US in 1962 by Pepperidge Farm.
p80AZ TIL that the Shroud of Turin (allegedly Jesus Christ’s burial shroud) may have been created using a lost form of medieval photography
oy1R TIL that the Guatemalan currency, the quetzal, was originally a bird’s tail feathers. “Since it was a crime to kill a quetzal, the bird was simply captured, its long tail feathers plucked, and was set free.”
wLBb8 TIL there is a long lost tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in NYC, that may contain an 18th century locomotive which is reported to be the hiding place of John Wilks Booth's lost diary. A man found the tunnel in 1980, but it was resealed by the city before he could finish searching for the train.
4kpXX TIL in 1974 the US made Daylight Saving Time permanent with 79% public approval. Support dropped to 42% the first winter due to everyone waking up in darkness. It was repealed the next year.