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TIL Classical music is effective at dispersing loitering teens from retail and transportation hubs

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69818 TIL Back to the Future's George McFly was only played by Crispin Glover in the first movie - for parts 2 and 3, it was actor Jeffrey Weissman wearing a Crispin Glover face-mold
woG01 TIL that paintball was inspired by the 1924 short story The Most Dangerous Game, about an aristocrat who targets humans for sport.
oB5wo TIL that the eastern most part of Russia and the western most part of USA are separated by just 2.4 miles or 3.8 kilometers. Russia is the closest country to USA which doesn't share a land border.
m0VE TIL Walt Disney & Salvador Dali collaborated on a short film called “Destino” in 1945
oRJAE TIL that there’s a specific phobia of the color yellow known as xanthophobia; its exact causes are not fully understood but can be influenced by past experiences, learned behavior, or underlying cognitive factors