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TIL that because of a feud on the set of Groundhog day the collaborative filmmaking duo of Bill Murray and Herold Ramis didn’t talk for 21 years. It wasn’t until a week before Ramis’s death that the two made up.

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b6nEN Today I learned the term "software engineering" was coined by a woman..... Margaret Hamilton
8lnZ TIL: There’s a restaurant in New York where menu prices rise and fall based on demand, just like the stock exchange
15LO TIL there is a type of mosquitoes called Toxorhynchites and they do not consume blood! Instead they prey on other Mosquito larvae.
49bo TIL evidence of the oldest man/dog relationship is in a French cave. Side-by-side foot and paw prints were discovered. The 26,000 year old tracks were left behind by a young boy and his wolf companion.
j6j8p TIL of Operation Border Stone, where Czechslovak secret police set up fake border crossings near West Germany to capture people trying to escape the communist nation. The police held fake "welcome" interviews and led the refugees into path where real police awaited for them.