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TIL that webcams were invented because some computer scientists were too lazy to get up to check if their coffee was done.

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A9lx TIL Ostriches are the largest and heaviest birds in the world, they can outrun Leopards, their kick is strong enough to kill a Lion, male Ostriches can roar like a lion and they can see as far as 2.2 miles (3.5 km).
07Xp TIL in Caracas, Venezuela, as kids go to bed on xmas Eve, they tie a string to their big toe, leaving the other end outside their bedroom window. Streets are closed to cars until 8am for people to roller-skate to early mass, tugging on hanging string as they go by to wake the ones that are sleeping.
BZQy TIL the largest Japanese character is called Taito, consists of 84 strokes and means “the appearance of a dragon in flight”.
neveY TIL the Hitchcock film North By Northwest (1959) is regarded by some to be "the first James Bond film", due to its similarities with splashily colorful settings, secret agents, a femme fatale, and an elegant, wisecracking leading man opposite a sinister yet strangely charming villain
6EGlX TIL that in Inglorious Basterds, during the scene where Brad Pitt and his team pose as Italian film makers, the name Eli Roth’s character takes: Antonio Margheriti, is actually one of Quentin Tarantino’s favourite spaghetti Western director’s name.