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TIL Google Images was created in response to Jennifer Lopez wearing a Versace dress to the Grammy’s in 2000, which subsequently resulted in Google’s “most popular search query” they had seen to date: Jennifer Lopez’s green dress.

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4X0pR TIL about the book “How to spot a Jap” issued to US soldiers in China during WWII. In it, they were told the Chinese are “about the size of an American”, has even teeth and walk in strides while the Japanese are buck-toothed, shuffle and look as if “their legs are directly attached to their chests”.
OooML TIL in 1996 and 1997, Emily Rosa, 9, tested 21 therapeutic touch practitioners whether their claims to detect "human energy fields" were true. After finding they were right only 44% of the time, she published the results on 1998, becoming the youngest person to have a research paper published.
Px1O TIL Jamie Hyneman, co-host of Mythbusters, has a degree in Russian Linguistics
kJAmg TIL in 1984 three hippos died in a West German zoo after an elephant opened a valve and sent hot water into their pool, generating steam that suffocated them.
a8Wjo TIL that the longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,' a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine particles of silica.