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TIL That the “Soap Opera Effect” is caused by a higher rate of frames per second. Soap Opera’s look this way because it is cheaper to film on video.

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JDQ4 TIL Ira Glass, host of “This American Life,” has been working at NPR since he started as a 19 year old intern in 1978
glO9 TIL that Irish police had been looking for a ‘Prawo Jazdy’, a reckless driver with over 50 offences, only to learn that 'prawo jazdy’ is Polish for 'driver’s license’
nWelr TIL that Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, he was released only after lengthy negotiations between the family and the Nazis and upon payment of $21,000,000($387,575,106.38), believed to have been the largest ransom payment in history for any individual.