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TIL That the original dedicated indoors movie theatres were called nickelodeons, a portmanteau of nickel, and the Greek word odeion, meaning roofed theatre.

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rRNWW TIL that 'decimate' is actually a reference to the roman practice of punishing large groups of people (e.g. battalions that performed poorly) by dividing the cohort into groups of ten, having each group cast lots, and have the nine individuals kill the single unlucky individual in each group.
xw5g TIL flaming pigs were used in ancient warfare as a countermeasure against war elephants.
yRXv TIL an 8 year old boy had his arm bitten off by a shark in Florida in 2001. The boys uncle wrestled the shark to shore, the arm was pried out of the shark’s mouth, and surgeons reattached the limb to the boy after an 11 hour operation.
R7ZR8 TIL that Arthur Miller was Marilyn Monroe’s last husband before she died. They divorced in 1961, she died in 1962.
bmV4 TIL there’s a website containing thousands of first hand accounts of slavery from former slaves. Many (if not most) of the former slaves have nothing but positive things to say about their former masters.