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TIL that the village of Giethoorn in the Netherlands has no roads. People get around on foot or via one of the village’s many canals

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0d7MM TIL Oliver Stone started writing the screenplay for Platoon on July 4, 1976 after a fireworks display triggered his Vietnam War flashbacks.
0wKa5 TIL Zoos give female animals, such as Zebras and Chimps, birth control to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Zoos also pick and chose which males of different species are allowed to reproduce, essentially “zoo breeding” towards preferred traits for zoo life.
Wyd4 TIL that Deaf people experience a “tip of the fingers” phenomenon in sign language, just as hearing persons describe a word being on the “tip of their tongue”
KYOVR TIL that the author and screenplay writer Alistair MacLean, knocked out actor Richard Burton, during a drunken brawl. They worked together in the war movie "Where Eagles Dare".
69Bkl TIL in 1937, Marion Anderson gave a concert at Princeton but was denied lodging at a local segregated hotel. Einstein invited her to stay at his nearby home. They became friends, and she often stayed at his house whenever she visited Princeton