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TIL about Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary where two unemployed actors put on a full production of Hamlet — staged and filmed entirely inside the video game Grand Theft Auto Online (2013)

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5mvr TIL the entirety of Ulysses S. Grant’s much-given “perfect speech” was: “I rise only to say that I do not intend to say anything. I thank you for your hearty welcomes and good cheers.”
QmG6 TIL North Korea appears pitch black at night based on NASA satellite images. Entire streets shut down, and people go to bed early with nothing else to do in the darkness. South Korea use 10,162 kilowatt hours per person a year compared to North Korea who only use 739.
0wWPy TIL the reason we have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a circle is because the Sumerians used a counting system with a base 60, which was then passed on to the Babylonians.
E1gy0 TIL The word shilling comes from schilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere.
mnNM TIL The largest consumer of kale before the 2013 craze was Pizza Hut.The thing is, Pizza Hut used it as decoration for their salad bars.They didn’t even feed it to people.