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TIL Focus puller is a member of a camera department whose primary responsibility is to maintain the camera lens's optical focus on whatever subject or action is being filmed.

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j4na TIL Many dog breeds are expected to go extinct within 50 years due to inbreeding.
XE7xX TIL of the Beale ciphers, which supposedly state the location of buried treasures worth approximately $43 million. Only one of the ciphers has been cracked, revealing the contents of the treasure. The other two stating the location and the treasure's owners (and next of kin) are yet to be solved.
R7kAj TIL that after Prussia had it’s army limited to 42,000 men, the King of Prussia enrolled that number of permitted men for a year, then dismissed them and enrolled another group of the same size for the next year, and so on, eventually resulting in having an army of 420,000 trained men
X0XYP TIL about The Cave Without a Name near San Antonio, TX . In 1940 there was a state-wide contest to name the cave and the winner was a young boy who said that the cave "was too beautiful to have a name". He received the $50 cash prize award. The Cave Without A Name is a National Natural Landmark.
VEPk TIL that the Griechenbeisl restaurant in Vienna, Austria has been open since 1447 and the most famous guests have been Mozart, Beethoven, and Mark Twain.