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TIL that the snow animation code from the movie "Frozen" was used to help solve a cold case from 1959 in eastern Europe

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695nl TIL Cai Lun, the inventor of paper, was a eunuch
VMA78 TIL as of 2017, 75% of the US’s medical communications are still sent via fax.
gjP4 TIL Bill O'Reilly taunted a women’s health physician on the air for years as a “savage baby killer” until a viewer shot him dead in the pews of his church.
GBYN TIL Germany has ‘Tauchgondeln’ [diving gondolas]. They’re tourist attractions where a pressurized room on a pole gets lowered down into the sea. They’re unique to Germany and there are only four of them.
rjm0 TIL the word “Adrenalin” - which would become genericized as “adrenaline” - is actually a trademarked name for the hormone “epinephrine.”