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TIL about the windshield phenomenon. People tend to find fewer insects smashed on the windscreens of their cars now compared to a decade or several decades ago.

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e006D TIL "Pulp Fiction" was originally rejected by TriStar, with them saying "This is the worst thing ever written. It makes no sense. Someone's dead and then they're alive. It's too long, violent, and unfilmable."
LkXld TIL of Ruthie Tompson, one of the original animators for Disney's Snow White, is still alive at age 107. She's the seventh oldest person in the world.
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85YL TIL that the genetic testing of a boy who died 12,500 years ago proved that descendants of all Native Americans, including South & Central American tribes, can be traced back at least 24,000 years to a group of early Asians and Europeans who mated near Lake Baikal in what is now Siberia.