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TIL that the QWERTY keyboard was set up so that the top row has all the letters needed to spell typewriter

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x6AYo TIL that actors with visible tattoos on screen often need release forms from the tattoo artists to feature their work in films.
ZRgR TIL Onions are the only commodity banned from futures trading in the United States. The Onion Futures Act was passed in 1958 after two traders cornered the onion market in Chicago controlling 98% of all available onions.
kXl7 TIL that John Morales, the performer who played McGruff the Crime Dog, was put behind bars after police found 1,000 pot plants and a grenade launcher in his possession.
b9XKp TIL in 2007, an English woman cremated her missing son, only for him to turn up alive and well a day later. It turned out that the police had mistakenly identified another dead man as her son, and she herself had become convinced after they confirmed his “distinctive scars”, such as a brain injury.
0dM1y TIL the DC Extended Universe won an Academy Award three years before the Marvel Cinematic Universe won their first. The film that won? Suicide Squad (2016)