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TIL: Only members of the genus Homo can touch the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger.

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nWoJG TIL that in 1974, filmmaker Bob Clark directed a horror film, "Black Christmas," about a deranged killer who murdered girls on a sorority campus during the Christmas season. 9 years later in 1983, Clark once again directed a Christmas film, this time a family-comedy, titled "A Christmas Story."
7re7O TIL that airplanes will perform a "fuel dump" if they need to land earlier than expected. This is because airplanes can take off with more weight than they can land with, and the fuel makes of 80% of the aircraft's weight at takeoff.
a6wb TIL that Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” has spent more than 800 weeks in the Billboard 200 since its release.
goAD TIL Garfield (the comic strip) was never supposed to be funny. It was crafted to fit a marketing niche.
8a7jb TIL Sir Alec Guiness HATED his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: "Apart from the money, I regret having embarked on the film," calling the dialog "lamentable." An autograph seeker told him he'd seen the movie over 100 times; he gave him an autograph on the condition he never see the movie again.