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TIL: “Memes” are a scientific term for memetics and basically categorized as mental “virus” or “parasites” where they “infect” hosts to spread self replicating ideas…

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W7gZo TIL that "The Birth of a Nation," a 1915 silent film, became the highest grossing film for twenty-five years and revolutionized the film industry with its technical effects and first-time use of a musical score.
oWNR TIL Google’s first ever tweet was “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010” which when converted from binary means, “I’m feeling lucky”.
6MJm TIL Napoleon’s penis is currently located in New Jersey. It was removed from his body by the doctor performing his autopsy and was smuggled by a priest.
WrmL TIL A group of writers purposely wrote a terrible novel full of nothing but sex scenes to prove how vulgar American literary culture had become. It became a bestseller.
y4Pe TIL the ‘pirate accent’ is entirely based on the performance of Robert Newton in the film Treasure Island.