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TIL that water droplets can orbit around charged knitting needles.

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l79nA TIL the first non-American actor to play Superman / Kal El was Lee Quigley. As the infant in the original 1978 movie he would later tragically die at the age of 14 after inhaling solvents
xMZ5 TIL that in Feudal Japan, there was an untouchable caste comprised of “impure” professions such as executioners, undertakers, workers in slaughterhouses, butchers or tanners. 400 years later, descendants of this caste may still face discrimination.
rRb0x TIL Eyes Wide Shut (1999) holds the record for longest continuous film shoot at 400 days. It was also Stanley Kubrick's final film.
5VeLD Today I learned: New England was originally called New Holland, but after the Dutch won the battle against the Brits over who got control over Suriname, the Dutch gave up their colonies in the North Region of America, and it's why New York used to be called New Amsterdam.
W7rYX TIL In 1942 actor Lionel Atwill was barred from working in Hollywood after being involved in a sex scandal. He pled guilty to perjury for not disclosing he had shown pornographic films at his house to a group of friends. He would later get his sentence overturned.