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TIL that words are encoded in our mind on the basis of their shapes and sizes instead of their actual meaning.

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nBE7 TIL The fake prop money used in Rush Hour 2 was too accurate. After extras tried to spend what was left lying around after the climax was filmed, the Secret Service raided and seized $100 million in fake bills from the prop maker and accused them of counterfeiting.
eRV4 TIL Futurama will return one last time in a Simpsons crossover event.
LKBm TIL Wooly Mammoths survived on a couple of isolated islands in Siberia for up to 6,000 years after the species had gone extinct on the mainland.
epRRg TIL about the Hiller Flying Platform, a 1950s hoverboard.
7RKx TIL the last allowed visit to the Fort Knox gold vault, by members of the US Congress and some journalists was on 23 September 1974.