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TIL that nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America are bots

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v1wKR TIL Serial killer Ted Bundy was convicted and sentenced to death in large part on the basis of now-discredited forensic bite mark evidence. Though there was other evidence implicating him and he later confessed to the killings anyway, so no one doubts his guilt.
7rROX Today I learned of a phenomenon called Twin Films. Twin Films are films with the same, or very similar, plot produced or released at the same time by two different film studios. examples include, [Finding Nemo - Shark Tale], [Olympus has Fallen - White House down], [Churchill - Darkest Hour]
QNkGe TIL that there are hundreds of totally free online courses from universities like Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Caltech, and others in a huge range of subjects
A5en TIL that when the CEO of the Sesame Street Workshop was asked if Bert and Ernie are gay, he replied, “They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They don’t exist below the waist.”
wO18 TIL All carrots were purple before the 17th century