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TIL Patient “Zero” was a misunderstanding of patient “O”

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9w4YM TIL Cheech & Chong's Basketball Jones Included Some Major Names In Music Including The Late George Harrison
xYD5 TIL During the entire Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Legolas only speaks directly to Frodo once, saying: “And you have my bow.”
R7r57 TIL of Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for the story of a heroin-addicted four-year old. It was later discovered that the entire story was fabricated, and the award was rescinded.
GYQeQ TIL that just over a century ago, people preferred to sleep in two shorter shifts at night rather than just have one long sleep.
4kg TIL that Tesla said that if you stick a rod far enough into space the temperature difference would create an electrical current and a motor could be run off it and that this (while not doing any work itself) did not violate the second law of thermodynamics.