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TIL that The Sound of Music is a true story

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9w7BG TIL the idiom "Keeping up with the Joneses" came from a comic strip of the same name that ran in U.S. newspapers from 1913-1940. It featured the McGinis family, often struggling to keep up socially and materially with their neighbors, the unseen Joneses.
16RLr TIL that when physicists say that light is affected by being observed, it actually just means that light is affected by being interacted with.
5VJX8 TIL that the counterpart to a giant painted mural in Biddeford, Maine [depicting a young boy making a phone call] is located in Slemani, Iraq. The project, facilitated by fifth-grade students from both countries, aimed to encourage cross-cultural bridge-building as a means of empathy and friendship.
l7Ew5 TIL who in fact controls all of our money.
Z8BDR TIL about the 300 Club, a group of people who have endured a temperature difference of 300°F. There's also the 200 Club - a temperature difference of 200°C