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TIL that Olivia Wilde’’s actual name is Olivia Cockburn. She changed her name professionally to make it sound pleasant, and chose ‘Wilde’ as a tribute to Oscar Wilde.

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g7MX TIL when a factory worker from Wonka was asked about the production of Nerds candy, he said “Basically we start off with a sugar crystal and we just keep coating it with more sugar.”
Ol7Y TIL 2% of women have a 4th color cone and can see about 90 million more colors than the rest of us.
OB94 TIL all teachers in North Korea in the 1990s were required to play the accordion–and that you needed to pass an accordion test before getting your teaching certification.
jOkn TIL when co-inventing the CD, Sony and Phillips agreed the length should be 74 minutes as to fit Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
m1xNP TIL that the Schwartzkopff torpedo was based on the Whitehead design. Schwartzkopff translates to Blackhead. In 2 battles where this torpedo was employed, 3 ships were sunk.