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TIL the fuzzy bit on a boom microphone is actually called a “Dead Cat.”

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X0ZlP TIL that the reason we think of Neanderthals as hunched over and primitive is because one of the first skeletons we found was 40 years old and had arthritis
N7gNb TIL of the “asshole” experiments: participants were blocked from walking down a narrow hallway by a researcher who called them an “asshole”. Southern men were far more likely to respond aggressively to the insult than Northern men who shrugged it off.
1rKV TIL in 1838, France and Mexico fought the Pastry War over Mexico’s refusal to pay 600,000 pesos to a French pastry chef whose shop had been ransacked by Mexican officers.
1ay5d TIL a 2011 study found that 47% adults in Detroit were functionally illiterate
5R1n TIL nylon gets its name from where it was first developed: New York and London.