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TIL Giraffes are technically kosher

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gMgD4 TIL that the most famous picture of Audrey Hepburn was taken in a lunch-break during the filming of War and Peace (1956).
69gZX TIL - 1939 - The US had two thanksgivings because shop owners were afraid of losing 7 days of shopping - The Year We Had Two Thanksgivings
wL0Y1 TIL Cyber Philosopher Jaron Lanier proposed a 'reverse Moore's Law': As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources. The larger a software program gets the more legacy code gums up its efficiency.
ddMd TIL in India there is a statue of Jesus where water was mysteriously dripping from its toes. Worshipers would collect and sometimes drink the ‘holy water’. A man traced the source of the water to a clogged toilet behind the wall condensing on the statue. He had to flee the country as a result.
e0pb4 TIL it takes more water to make a water bottle than the water it contains