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TIL there is a garbage swirl in the ocean the size of Texas.

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eZxg TIL that the use of the phrase “Checkmate” is a mispronunciation of the original Persian, “ Shäh mät!”, which means the king is helpless
LyLr TIL all copies of the film “Nosferatu” were ordered burned by a court due to a lawsuit from the heirs of Bram Stoker, who said the film was an unauthorized adaption of “Dracula” (it was). However, one copy survived the purge, and the film is recognized today as a masterpiece of horror in film.
1jE4 TIL of the Coolidge Effect: where the window after intercourse when a male can’t have sex again is removed if the male is given the chance to have sex with a new partner.
l7KlA TIL that Bob Crane (who played Col. Robert Hogan on Hogans Heroes 1965-1971) played the drums in the theme song for the show.
WkJXY TIL The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima named by it’s pilot Col Paul Tibbets, after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was named after a character of the book, Enola; or, Her fatal mistake. With eerily prophetic passages including “He is the bird of ill omen.”