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TIL that Stephen King decided on the location for the Shining, by opening an atlas and randomly pointing at a location, which happened to be Boulder, Colorado.

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awnB9 TIL that Marco Polo makes no mention of the Great Wall in any of his writings on China, which some people believe proves he never visited the country. This type of conclusion is called “argument from silence” and is a common logical fallacy.
nWGwB TIL while filming Metropolis (1927) they would often end up with more children in the evening than in the morning. Coming from the poorest areas of Berlin, the children would sneak onto set or climb over the fence to experience the warm rooms, games, toys, cocoa, cake, and regular meals
Wk9eo TIL that the jesus nut, in some helicopter designs, is the single nut that holds the helicopters rotors to the body of the air craft. The term came around in the Vietnam War, one of the first conflicts to make use of helicopters.
9YnGm TIL of the Yottabyte, the largest known multiple of byte, 1 YB = 10008bytes = 1024bytes = 1000000000000000000000000bytes = 1000 zettabytes = 1 trillion terabytes. Since the radius of Holmium is 233 pm, an atomic memory device could store one yottabyte in an area roughly the size of a nickel.
Be8k TIL That a woman in Ohio was sentenced by a judge to sit in the “smelliest area” of a garbage dump for 8 hours, for neglecting her pet. “If you puke, you puke.”