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TIL Movie trailers originally played after the movie. They “trailed” the feature film—hence, the name.

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mYGv TIL that in 1972 a radio was designed that ‘sneezed’ every 6 months in order to protect the microprocessors from dust.
p098 TIL a respected German anthropologist whose ‘discoveries’ helped shape our understanding of modern man was found to have falsified most of his data - one skeleton he claimed was from 27,400 BC was later dated to 1750 AD.
lXe7 TIL- that Scotland’s national animal is a Unicorn
6EDB8 TIL that the assertion that the human body completely replaces itself (cellular renewal) in 7-10 years, is a myth. I.e neurons in the cerebral cortex not only last your entire lifetime, they are never replaced.
AN7gn TIL about auto brewery syndrome, where various yeasts and bacteria in a persons gut produce alcohol in intoxicating quantities.