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TIL: The odds of flipping a coin is actually 51/49. The odds of spinning a US penny is actually 80/20.

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a8vAo TIL the US started a Crazy Horse monument to rival Mount Rushmore in 1948. While the design features the Chief riding and pointing toward the Black Hills only the face has been completed.
x6ejg TIL That China had a very significant role in helping the US defeat Japan in WWII, and that China suffered over eight million casualties.
wLVD1 TIL Gwen Stacy was killed off in the Spider-Man comics because Stan Lee was in a rush to get to a meeting in Europe; Wanting to get his writers out of his office, he told them, "If that's what you wanna do, okay," without realizing what he'd just agreed to. He came back to find Gwen dead.
PYe1w TIL ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ is the only fantasy film in history to have ever won the Best Picture Oscar and holds the distinction of sweeping the highest number of nominations, with 11 out of 11 wins.
4kyL6 TIL Mary the Color Scientist, a thought experiment, about a scientist in a black & white world, who has extensive knowledge of color but no actual experience of it. The experiment asks whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes outside of the colorless world and experiences seeing in color.