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TIL The Onion was founded by Seann William Scott’s brother
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TIL the popular song “closing time” is actually a song describing being born
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TIL the tradition of firing guns as a salute was originally a sign of peaceful intentions. Since guns and cannons needed to be reloaded after each shot, firing your gun in the air essentially rendered you "unarmed."
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TIL: The Apollo Guidance computer was programmed in metric, but showed imperial values in the displays. Using metric meant fewer calculations thus optimizing the use of the limited processing power and the astronauts were used to imperial so that's what they saw on the display.
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TIL Ian Holm, the actor for Bilbo in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, was the voice actor for Frodo in BBC's 1981 radio drama adaption of The Lord of the Rings.
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TIL there are unicellular organisms with a diameter of 2 inches.