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TIL that the word "pixel" is short for "picture element"

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d8Xn8 TIL that towards the end of WWI a 'second Paris' was built to fool German bombers into not bombing the real Paris. It was complete with a Champs-Elysées and Gard Du Nord, wooden replicas of buildings, and white, yellow, and red lights to create the effect of machines working at night.
AN7Xw TIL the 4B movement of millennial South Korean women seeks to create an online and offline world devoid of men, with the women refusing to engage in heterosexual dating, marriage, or childbirth. It was founded in response to extreme harassment of women in Korean society
OGllL TIL that Yemenis spend an estimated 14.6 million man-hours per day chewing khat
awoLb TIL alligators are scared of humans and it's usually safe to swim in most alligator infested waters. A 2010 report tallied all the reported alligator attacks over the 81 years from 1928 to 2009. It found there were only 24 deaths from alligators in the United States, most of them in Florida.
mxJjv TIL that Disneyland edited out every cigarette they could find in Walt Disney’s photographs, causing his unusually iconic two finger pointing gesture. Tom Hanks even used it in Saving Mr. Banks as do Disney employees now.