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TIL what about progressive JPEG. A method of compressing and loading images on the Web

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d8end TIL that in 2015 A research study on the efficiency of mosquito repellents found that Victoria’s Secret’s Bombshell perfume actually repelled mosquito’s better than nearly all the other non-DEET products
N7eNM TIL that the cafeteria scene in Spider-Man where Tobey Maguire catches falling food on a tray is actually real with no CGI involved, it took Tobey 156 takes to nail the shot.
W774X TIL A “Keynesian beauty contest” describes why certain commodities are traded not for what they are intrinsically worth, but what others believe they are worth, creating an iteration of valuation belief — like a beauty contest where the judge chooses a winner by guessing the audience’s choice.
P78V TIL that Germans killed an estimated 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish civilians in concentration camps
b9G99 TIL that the Republic of Vanuatu (on a small Pacific island) has an underwater post office, and a post box on the rim of an active volcano