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TIL Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

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wKM7 TIL that Quentin Tarantino never knew his father, but his father latched on to Quentin’s fame in order to become an actor.
VBA9k TIL that the city of Americana in Brazil was founded by former Confederates who fled the US after the Civil War
Lk0V TIL there is a dress code for visiting the Vatican City, and vendors outside the entrance sell clothes made of paper to the unprepared
69Q5X TIL that Dead Space originally started as System Shock 3
6EbYW TIL that Oviraptor, which is latin for egg taker, is a misnomer. The first discovered specimen was next to what were thought to be protoceratops eggs, so it was presumed to be an egg eater. It later turned out that those were Oviraptor eggs, meaning it was brooding them, not eating them.