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TIL That the word gender wasn’t popularized until around the 80s and overtook sex in determining infants in the 90s

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N7MAE TIL that Jackie Chan, starred in a porn movie in 1975 during his early career struggle. Not only was he in a porn movie, but it remains to this day the only movie he has ever been involved with that doesn’t include a fight scene or a stunt sequence.
6bQZ TIL of the International Friendship Exhibition in North Korea, which contains a VHS copy of Space Jam.
49r5 TIL every time Pac-Man eats a regular dot, he stops moving for one frame (1/60th of a second), slowing his progress by roughly ten percent—just enough for a following ghost to overtake him.
Zmpp TIL Dave Matthews’ older sister, Anne, was murdered in 1994 by her husband, who later killed himself. Dave and his sister Jane then began to raise Anne’s kids.
Rwr8 TIL In 1910, the Diamond Match Company patented the 1st nonpoisonous match in the U.S., which used a safe chemical called sesquisulfide of phophorous. United States President Taft publicly asked Diamond Match to release their patent for the good of mankind. They did on January 28, 1911