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TIL treadmills were originally a punishment used to harness human power on a giant wheel used to grind grains; hence the name “treadmill.”

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JoAV TIL Norwegian TV producers teamed up with a man dying of cancer to find out if mediums can talk to the dead. He left a secret note with a message only he knows. Anyone can guess what it says, and they reveal it on the 5th of October
16XaP TIL the highest-ranking penguin in the word is Major General Sir Nils Olav III, colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard. He is the third penguin to hold this post, dating back to 1972
wLEdo TIL that blue eyes don’t have blue pigment and are instead blue for the same reason that water and the sky are blue: they scatter light so that only blue light reflects out
4Zj6 TIL Han Solo was frozen at the end of ESB because they didn’t know if Harrison Ford would agree to do the next movie.
loVPA TIL the Ministry of Truth building in Nineteen Eighty-Four is inspired by a real structure - Senate House, the headquarters of the UK's Ministry of Information during WWII.