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TIL there is still one living member of the Our Gang comedies

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jDvv TIL that IBM made a movie, quite literally, out of atoms.
eOj5 TIL that self-injury works to reduce emotional pain because of a phenomenon called pain offset relief. “This may be because the physical pain relief that follows a self-injury event basically tricks the brain into perceiving relief of emotional pain too!”
wor6P TIL that most jokes about Germany are just about Bavaria. That is because the american occupation zone wa in bavaria and they mostly witnessed their culture and assumed that all of Germany is like Bavaria.
OGEG6 TIL that peak employment at Boeing was during the Vietnam War in 1968 where the aviation manufacturer employed 148,672 people, or roughly two-hundredths of a percent of the U.S. workforce.
JZw1 TIL In 1924 Paavo Nurmi won four golds, but couldn’t participate on the 10 000 m: “Nurmi was so furious that he took to the warm-up track next to the stadium and ran the same distance at the same time. Ritola won gold with a world record, but just outside Nurmi had finished first.”