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TIL Count von Count (from Sesame Street) has a form of OCD (Arithmomania) in regards to counting.

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VMmdm TIL of the Book of Judith (~300 BC) whose hero is a beautiful widow who saves her people by befriending and decapitating the Assyrian general.
epR64 TIL Why daily serials/T.V. shows are called daily soaps. My teacher told about this in class. A company named P&G which manufactures soaps started the practice to push soap adverts between daily serials broadcasted on t.v. mainly targeted to READCOMMENT
wog6M TIL Sharks are Older than Trees. The first organisms we’d recognize as trees (the extinct genus Archaeopteris) didn’t appear until roughly 350 million years ago, at least 50–100 million years after sharks were already cruising the oceans.
vPg08 TIL the vocalizations of the velociraptors from Jurassic Park are actually the sound of tortoises mating. Sound designer Gary Rydstrom set up recording equipment at Marine World and sat around for hours capturing the audio.
yBje TIL of the H.L. Hunley, a fully functional naval submarine used by the Confederacy in the Civil War. Powered by hand cranks and armed with bouyant torpedos, it was the first submersible vessel in history to successfully sink an enemy ship