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TIL Why You Shouldn't be Scared of Coronavirus

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wL85M TIL The Scooby Doo Movie (2002) was originally meant to be PG-13 and have a much darker tone and have a heavy emphasis on marijuana jokes. After receiving bad feedback, they cut it into the family friendly movie it became. In 2017 it was revealed that an R-rated cut exists of the movie.
6dvl TIL that Oregon’s entire coastline is public land: “The Oregon Beach Bill decreed that all land within sixteen vertical feet of the average low tide mark belongs to the people of Oregon and guarantees… free and uninterrupted use”
awWE9 TIL The idiom see a man about a dog (horse) Is from the 1866 Dion Boucicault play Flying Scud. In the play, a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying, "Excuse me Mr. Quail, I can't stop; I've got to see a man about a dog."
5Y8WP (TIL) England does not have a written constitution, rather they have traditions, case laws, and social consensus, etc. Weird innit?
Ypy5r TIL that due to its isolated location, the Icelandic language has changed very little from its original roots. Modern Icelandics can still read texts written in the 10th Century with relative ease.