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TIL Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.

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d8VoB TIL that the discovery of elements 95 and 96 (americium and curium) was first announced by physicist Glenn Seaborg on the children’s radio show Quiz Kids, in response to one of the children asking whether any new elements had been discovered at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the war
pmop TIL there is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button
epK0k TIL that the term "spring fever" originally referred to illness in the spring caused by a lack of fresh foods in the winter.
R7JQ6 TIL: Sony didn't believe that Aaron Sorkin's 162 page script for 'The Social Network' would come out under 2 hours. David Fincher timed Sorkin reading it aloud. The reading took 1 hour and 59 minutes, which was the exact running time of the final cut
7rDop TIL that Japan already had HDTV in the 1990s, way before anywhere else