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TIL (Sophie Turner who plays Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones) adopted ‘Zunni’ (Sansa Stark’s direwolf) after filming ended for Season 1 of Game of Thrones

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9x1D TIL that the “crunch” of crisps is the result of a hundred or more tiny air bubbles being released at speeds of 300 meters per second… in other words, a crunch is a tiny sonic boom inside your mouth.
QQBp TIL: The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want
VM510 TIL that 'Soramimi' or 'soramimi kashi' is a Japanese term for homophonic translation of song lyrics.
ZZgR TIL The Minimum Wage in 1968 was $10/HR in 2009 Dollars.
bMXE TIL in 1992, a team of game developers used a white puffball as a placeholder graphic while they designed their game’s protagonist. They grew fond of the puffball, and decided to keep him rather than replace him with a real character. He became the iconic character Kirby.