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TIL that, according to a study of Academy Award speeches, Steven Spielberg has been thanked more often than God.

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wL5KJ Historical photos show fishermen with chinooks almost as tall as they are. A century's worth of dam-building, overfishing, habitat loss and hatcheries has cut the size of the average fish in half.
LQo7P TIL that grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, bananas, and chili peppers are botanically defined as berries. While, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are technically not botanically defined as berries.
XEjQj TIL Will Ferrell played on 10 different MLB teams in one day
a8AZ TIL: The phrase “on the rocks” came from the “olden days” in Scotland, where scott’s who didn’t have ice would go to the river and take stones chilled by the mountain snow and add it to there drinks. And that’s where the phrase, scotch “on the rocks” comes from
x66Yg TIL King Louis XIV of France covered his telescope’s objective lens with a piece of smoked glass to view the solar eclipse. This method remained popular for a couple hundred years until the 1930s when products such as the Eclipse-o-scope became available