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TIL The world slut was orginially used to describe a woman who did not keep her room tidy

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w501 TIL that in Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick insisted on the table in the warroom to be covered in green felt, so it looked like the leaders were playing cards for the fate of the world. It makes little sense as the entire movie was shot in black and white.
grVYW TIL In its heyday, Yale, British Columbia, was named the largest town north of San Francisco and west of Chicago, with a peak population of about 16,000 and a reputation for lawlessness and violence
PY1Le TIL In the last 40 years, the overall survival rate for children’s cancer has increased from 10% to nearly 90% today.
BrP9y TIL despite being depicted on California's flag, the California grizzly bear has been extinct since 1924.
R5dJ1 TIL In 1462, the Genoese lord of the island of Lesbos surrendered to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conquerer on the condition that his men's heads be spared. The Sultan agreed and had them cut in half instead.