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TIL that during the filming of Steamboat Bill, Jr. in 1928, crew members threatened to quit and begged Buster Keaton not to do this scene. The cameraman admitted to looking away while filming.

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a5RM TIL that in 1978, over 500 silent films were discovered buried in the Yukon permafrost, including footage of the scandalous 1919 World Series.
6wjl TIL a Russian scientist injected himself with a 3.5 million year old bacteria trapped in Siberian Permafrost ‘after successful experiments on mice and fruit flies’. He says it has made him flu proof for the past two years and gave him more energy to work longer hours.
wZmJ TIL USA has relatively poor median net wealth than rest of the developed world.
O6x4 TIL Collecting rainwatter is illegal in many US states
x6OM7 TIL an fMRI study mapping the female genitals onto the sensory portion of the brain found that nipple self-stimulation activates the genital sensory cortex, the same area as clitoral, vaginal, and cervical self-stimulation.