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TIL that one of the reasons we like chocolate is because the ratio of sugar and fat is very similar to breast milk

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pNde TIL that in 1997, four years before being arrested for spying for the KGB, Robert Hanssen was caught using a password cracker on a federal computer. When asked about this, he said that he was simply trying to install a color printer, and so he needed the administrator password. They believed him.
4YoR TIL that the Coliseum got its name not because of its massive size, but because its proximity to a colossal ‘Statue of Liberty’ sized bronze statue of the Emperor Nero.
GmW5 TIL Pee-Wee’s house in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was a residential home owned by a “Chinese woman who barely spoke English” in Pasadena, CA. The director painted it fire engine red. “When we went in to do the house and painted it red, she was terrified that everyone would think she was a Communist.“
W7MNo TIL that there is such a thing as North Korean Science Fiction, where the Supreme Leader is always right and Evil Americans wander "the depraved streets of New York, where, at night, jazz made people dizzy as if it had stolen their souls."
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