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TIL the LEGO Movie incorporated actual fan-made short LEGO films into its plot. You can see them on the monitors in the scene where the citizens discover their creativity.

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W7dwd TIL: Economist Michael Housman used to data from 30,000 employees to find correlations between their preferred browser and job performance. Employees who used Firefox/Chrome stay 15% longer and were 19% less likely to miss work and had happier customers than employees who used IE or Safari.
b6Lnp TIL About Kenza, a monovo monkey that can understand complex human sentences and build mental representations, including games.
Qxx9 TIL the Stoned Ape Theory of human evolution hypothesizes that psychedelics transformed Homo erectus to Homo sapiens
P1kEL TIL the gourd was one of the world's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but for use as containers. It is also used as a resonator on many stringed instruments, including the sitar
neDxY TIL Shouting FIRE! in a crowded theater isn’t illegal. In U.S. v. Schenck, SCOTUS decided a pamphlet opposing the draft in WWI posed a "clear and present danger" to a nation at war. But it was overturned 40 years later.