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TIL We're taller in the morning than in the evening due to gravity compressing the cartilage in our spines when we stand up , sit , etc.

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YPkG TIL the first 1 million dollar budget movie in America (1916) also featured the first full female nudity in a mainstram film. It was a commercial success, but no copies of it exist. It is a lost movie.
mxBGo TIL about crossed letters, they consist of two different sets of writing, one written horizontally and the other perpendicularly. This was done during the early days of the postal system in the 19th century to save on expensive postage charges and to save paper.
P5RO TIL that because of Valentine’s Day, March is the biggest month for pregnancy test sales.
7A1P TIL that a whistleblower named Gustl Mollath was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital for claiming that a major bank was engaging in money laundering. A report by the bank itself later leaked, proved that Mollath was right and allowed him to be released.
Z8D5D TIL, CAPTCHA is an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"