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TIL that there is a Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge, named for its benefactor, antiquarian John Disney.

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QJYe6 TIL in the 1990s, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire's friend group called themselves 'The Pussy Posse'. They were known for partying and sleeping with lots of women in New York City, with Leo even saying "When you’re my age ... there’s not much besides sex on your mind."
wo5o TIL Discovery’s ‘How It’s Made’ visually described ~1000 items’ manufacturing process.
N7NbP TIL that residential dishwashers have a filter that needs to be cleaned. I don’t know how this escaped me until now...especially considering that I’ve cleaned many a commercial dishwasher filter.
y6xw TIL that angry New Hampshites tried to use eminent domain to build a hotel on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Souter’s childhood home, purely out of spite for his support of eminent domain.
8pVZ TIL on a British Airways flight en route to Spain the windshield blew out, sucking the captain halfway out. Flight attendants suffered frostbite and other injuries to hold onto his legs while the copilot landed the plane– with no loss of life.