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TIL the man behind SNL's "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" during the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Handey, is an actual person, and not a pen name or character

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1m6r TIL a time capsule was buried in Sir Frederick Banting Square, on the scientist’s 100th birthday, Nov. 14, 1991. Banting was part of a team that received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the isolation of insulin. The time capsule will be opened once a cure for diabetes has been found.
vgKB TIL the Indian state of Nagaland is 88% Christian of which 75% are Baptist making Nagaland both more Christian and more Baptist than any US state.
b9KE7 TIL that the first public demonstration of a one-way videophone occurred on April 7, 1927, between Herbert Hoover (then U.S. secretary of commerce) in Washington, D.C., and officials of AT&T in New York City. This was followed by the first demonstration of a two-way videophone, on April 9, 1930.
L5Jp TIL, after Rocky IV’s release, a joke was making rounds that since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien in the fifth installment. Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on the joke which became the movie Predator.
5WDQ TIL not one shopping mall has been built in the United States since 2006