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TIL that the word 'Eskimo' is considered derogatory and was a word used by non-native colonizers to refer to people living in the Arctic regions

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RLJQ TIL that ‘Boyhood’, the film shot over the course of 12 years, only had a total of 39 days of filming.
0dwAp TIL The White House was officially named such by Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. Before then, it was called "the Executive Mansion."
oRxQo TIL Profiteering from academic "pay to publish" was fathered by a man known for pension fraud and passed on his labor exploitation skills to the next generation.
690m7 TIL While light takes 8 minutes to reach earth from the sun, an object traveling the speed of light would orbit earth 7.5 times in 1 second.
vWOB TIL that this day, in 1935, it became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s complaint that aircraft disturb his sleep prompts the new law.