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TIL that large earrings (in both ears) were common and fashionable for men in Revolutionary France

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gr7Py TIL that Carl Sagan has an archive in the Library of Congress, endowed by the creator of Family Guy. Seth MacFarlane put up an undisclosed sum to help the Library of Congress buy more than a thousand boxes of material kept by the late scientist and his wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan.
VBMxB TIL about "Uncleftish Beholding," an essay written in a version of English that removes loan words, especially scientific ones, from Latin, Greek, or French, and replaces them with real or invented terms using only words with Germanic roots. "Uncleftish Beholding" translates as atomic theory.
X0WQ TIL Thomas Edison had his people steal a copy of A trip to the Moon (1902, listed as the 82nd best movie ever made) and made a fortune from it while the creator and founder of modern cinema Georges Méliès who planned on taking it to America ended up bankrupt shortly after.
gENy TIL of a website called MakeLoveNotPorn that shows videos of regular people having sex. It is dedicated to making sex less culturally taboo and works to subvert the negative ideas about sex and sexuality that are propagated by porn.
a8jY9 TIL Mount Olympus, home of the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece, is a real mountain