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TIL that an analysis of over 1300 Oscar acceptance speeches showed that Steven Spielberg was thanked more often than God!

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MAB TIL by 25 BC, ancient Romans developed a recipe for concrete specifically used for underwater work which is essentially the same formula used today.
Rxd8 TIL that zookeepers’ pregnancy test for polar bears is to have a specially trained beagle from Cincinnati sniff the bear’s poop.
epONk Today I learned that the Count of Sesame Street is close to two million years old...and still counting!
jlWN TIL Lin Zhao’s parents learnt their daughter was executed on 1968 only after a Communist Party official asked them to pay the five-cent fee for the bullet used to kill her
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