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TIL of the “replication crisis”, the fact that a surprisingly large percent of scientific findings cannot be replicated in subsequent studies.

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PjaG TIL that the founders of Adidas and Puma are brothers, and were Nazis
4XnbJ TIL Screenwriter Shane Black's original title for The Last Boy Scout was Die Hard, but Producer Joel Silver asked if he could use the title for a movie he was working on called Nothing Lasts Forever. Black agreed and Nothing Last Forever became Die Hard and Die Hard became The Last Boy Scout
e0bwb TIL the majority of Egyptian hieroglyphs represent sounds, not objects/ideas. In English, this would be like using pictures of a pear, ant, and hood to write "parenthood."
PY1de TIL Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" enough for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the United States Library of Congress in 2016, the first metal recording to do so.
kWmm TIL that a decimal point was misplaced when the iron content of Spinach was measured in the 1870’s, leading people to believe it had 10x more iron than reality, and made you stronger. This is why the creators of Popeye decided he would eat spinach to grow his muscles.