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

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Oo6b6 TIL Costco purposefully designed their store without signs to force people to wander through all the aisles and find things to buy.
kOgOm TIL of Otto Skorenzy, the 6' 4" 250lb German solider listed by MI5 as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe. Part of the Nazi Werewolf operations and responsible for a raid on a mountaintop castle, he allegedly went on to work for Mossad.
Rmdl TIL: South Korea has a ‘Cinderella Law’ that forbids children under the age of 16 to play online video games from 12:00 A.M. to 6:00 A.M. to prevent them from excessive 'Internet addiction’
a5RM TIL that in 1978, over 500 silent films were discovered buried in the Yukon permafrost, including footage of the scandalous 1919 World Series.
bRb7 TIL of Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer during WWII who volunteered to go to Auschwitz to document the genocide and fought in the Warsaw Uprising only to be executed by the Soviets