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TIL that in the 40s, computer memory systems used mercury as an acoustic medium. Alan Turing suggested gin as a cheaper alternative.

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woYnM TIL about Edward Bernays, who helped Lucky Strike co-opt the feminist movement to get women to smoke
epRW5 TIL In Batman Returns the bird Michelle Pfeiffer puts in her mouth to tease The Penguin was a real bird. No SFX. They did it in one take.
jDkR TIL approximately 25% of all black swan pairings are between homosexual males. Some couples are so eager for cygnets that “They steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs”.
1aJr7 TIL in the 1960s, two doctors made a taxidermy female turkey to see what attracted a male. They discovered almost nothing stopped the male’s advances, even when the female’s wings, feet, and legs were removed. The male even made attempts to a stick with female’s head on it.
Zxgv TIL Bianca Lawson has been acting in teenager roles for the past 20 years, from being a high school student in Saved By the Bell: The New Class in 1993 to Pretty Little Liars in 2013.