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TIL the "ALS Icebucket Challenge" actually raised enough money to create treatments for the disease (that work). It wasn't just a social media trend that went nowhere.

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LL4P TIL: Mount Rushmore was originally supposed to be the president’s from head to waist but due to lack of funding they stopped construction
gMLKL TIL that there's something called Bechdel Test which measures the representation of women in fiction, asking whether the work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man.
GYj4j TIL that when the creators of 'Airplane!' cast Lee Bryant to play the "Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home" woman, they were unaware she starred in the original coffee ad her lines were parodying
kO4x1 TIL "Giraffe" is a relatively new term. Before the 1600s they were known as "Camelopards".
4kKg TIL that shrimp/prawns caught off the coast of Britain are sent to China to be hand-shelled and are then sent back to Britain to be sold.