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TIL the ground is the same as the floor, but on the outside.

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78ZaP TIL about the 2010 book "Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer" and that Mattell apologized for the book after extensive online criticism because Barbie had her male friends code the game she was designing and that her male friends fixed Skipper's computer that Barbie had infected with a virus
16bar til: Cruise ships have their own Brig and Morgue as well as a few other surprising amenities.
8a7ga TIL that the world's most overweight country isn't the United States, but rather Nauru, an island country in Micronesia, with 97 percent of men and 93 percent of women overweight or obese.
GYb0G TIL that during filming of 1973’s “Superteams”, an ABC show pitting famous athletes against each other, heavyweight champion Joe Frazier nearly drowned during a swimming event. He signed up despite not knowing how to swim.
rRWl0 TIL that in one of the most unusual instances of "twin films" (movies released around the same time, about the same subject) both Kalifornia (1993) and Natural Born Killers (1994) were based on spree killer Charles Starkweather AND starred Juliette Lewis in the role of the killer's girlfriend.