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TIL that Central Park is only the 5th largest park in NYC
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JYk98
TIL the first known mention of the word abracadabra was in a second century AD book (written by a physician) which prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle and the power of the amulet would make lethal diseases go away.
9w086
TIL Scientists have developed tactile hologram technology that can be felt and interacted
vPLRR
TIL that actor Raymond Burr (Perry Mason, Rear Window) refused to ever appear on The Tonight Show because Johnny Carson often told fat jokes about him, and Burr would feel compelled to confront Carson about "the bad jokes he does about everybody who can't fight back because they aren't there."
OGP7e
TIL Monty Python came to Germany in 1972, long before many other countries. The comedians were invited by Alfred Biolek to make TV specials in Germany, the first was performed phonetically and the second was dubbed. Terry Jones could still recite the German lumberjack song fourty years later.
Yp6Rv
TIL the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi were based on the Vietcong guerillas who faced a more technologically advanced foe but originally the events on Endor were to be set on the Wookie home planet. It was changed because Wookies had become technologically skilled over the evolution of the series.