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TIL: Usain Bolt Has Never Run a Mile

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5Vn8n TIL that the "red lips" film poster for The Rocky Horror Picture Show was a spoof of the Jaws movie poster, which had been released that same year
wLDm7 TIL of the almost extinct N/uu language. And today one of the four remaining speakers past away
4oro TIL: the word “Gauze” is derived from Gaza because this ancient city was known for making very fine fabrics
kONLW TIL that the US senate used the same ivory gavel for over 170 years till president Richard Nixon broke it during a late night debate about nuclear power in 1954
RyZ7 TIL that unlike any modern eyes, the lenses of trilobite eyes were actually constructed of calcite. This provided these ancient creatures with virtually unparalleled vision that was filled with streams of light and bursts of color, based on recent experiments conducted with calcite crystals.