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TIL In Colombia, dried ants replace popcorn as the typical movie theater snack.

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X04Vk TIL the United States Used Gas Chambers as a Form of Execution Up Until the 1990s
v1Ew7 TIL that the first three letters sent through the internet was "LOL", since they tried to send "LOGIN", the computer crashed at "LO", and after they rebooted the system sent "L", making "LOL".
e0PV4 TIL about an Indian maharaja who legally adopted 1000 Ukrainian children orphaned by WW2. He took them to India, kept them safe and brought in Ukrainian teachers to educate them, all using his own money.
pYnYO TIL eVscope users have the ability to participate in Citizen Science efforts led by the SETI Institute. The smart telescope technology (4.5 inch reflector) is sensitive enough to image the transit of exoplanets and the occultation of a star by a Trojan Asteroid
KYGMB TIL in 1995, producers for Striptease and G.I. Jane got into a bidding war to see who could get Demi Moore to film first. Striptease won which resulted in Moore being offered 12.5 million dollars which was more money than any other woman in Hollywood had ever been offered at the time.