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TIL We Used To Sleep In Two Segments Every Night Until Electricity Was Invented

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EnOV TIL Nintendo is over a hundred years old, having been founded in 1889 as a playing card company.
j68La TIL after viewing a rough cut of Romancing the Stone & expecting it to flop, the producers of the then-under-development Cocoon fired Robert Zemeckis as their film's director. But RtS was a surprise hit as the 6th-highest-grossing film of 1984 ($115 m) & allowed Zemeckis to make Back to the Future.
gMb59 TIL: Around 150 years before bimetallic Euro coins appeared, some bimetallic coins circulated in England. In J. Moore's 1840s privately-made "one penny model," proposed replacements for large copper pennies, a copper donut held a pea-sized silvery Queen Victoria disc. Some shopkeepers accepted them.
78g5b TIL that there’s 1,300 massive toxic waste sites on the EPA’s National Priorities List (NPL) and 42,000 more on the non-NPL list. That’s 2+ toxic waste incidents in all 19,400 cities, towns and villages in the US, on average!!
vPamx TIL that the word "boycott" is named after Charles Boycott, a landlord who became ostracized after an organized movement not to do business with him