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TIL There's a family where every member has 12 fingers
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TIL that the fifteen year old Steven Spielberg, dressed up ‘in a coat and tie’, sneaked onto the Universal Studios Lot and stuck his name up on the door of an abandoned office. He remained there without being caught for over three months, spending the time observing how the professionals made films.
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TIL for his PhD thesis, Ilya Bobvroskiy took a helicopter to a remote Russian bear infested ravine, rappelled down. Found fossils from the edicarian, & analysed cholesterol preserved in the ancient rocks. Science named his work amongst the top 10 breakthroughs of 2018.
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TIL during World War I, both sides used fake trees as spy posts. To make them, engineers would find a dead tree, then take sketches of it and make a detailed replica. At night, they would then would tear out the original tree and replace it with the fake.
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TIL When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home to a sellout crowd, the full stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
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TIL that during "the Emergency", a political crisis in India which saw civil liberties being curtailed, the newspaper Indian Express protested against ongoing press censorship by publishing a fully blank front page editorial.