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TIL Tsunamis also happen in the Mediterranean.

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wol68 TIL: The word 'pencil' comes from a Latin word meaning 'small penis'.
6oRm TIL The most accurate depiction of a black hole ever created was for the movie “Interstellar”. “It’s the product of a year of work by 30 people and thousands of computers.”
NXwlQ TIL about the "invisible wall," an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory. This "invisible wall" was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through.
m1lZp TIL that "Psycho," "Silence of the Lambs," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" were all based on the same serial killer
yQNPV TIL In 1851 "A muskrat skin was equal to a quarter of a dollar; a racoon skin, a third of a dollar; a doe skin, half a dollar, and a buck skin, “the almighty dollar.”