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TIL that virtually no one in Europe seriously believed the Earth was flat before Columbus’ voyages–this view comes not from historical fact, but from a Washington Irving book

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vPP97 TIL facial movements commonly thought to signal particular emotions regardless of context, person, and culture are not universally diagnostic of emotional states
PJDL TIL George Reeves, the actor who played Superman in the 1950s was wary because some fans tried to test his “invulnerability.” At one appearance a young fan pulled a pistol on him. Reeves convinced him to hand over the gun by telling him that a bystander could be hurt when the bullets bounced off
nj0o TIL the average human male ejaculation contains about 13500 Terabytes of information
KEe4 TIL the musician Moby is the great-great-great-grandnephew of Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick
Njr1 TIL Admiral Ackbar from “Return of the Jedi” was not a man in a suit, but a giant puppet.