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TIL That Russians don’t like to smile out of politeness because it is deemed a sign of stupidity

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ngrr TIL the director of M.A.S.H. had his 14-year-old son write a song for a scene because it needed to be “the stupidest song ever written.” His son wrote it in 5 minutes. It became the theme. The director earned $70,000 for directing the movie; by 1980 his son had earned over $1 million from the song.
GYE95 TIL Whiskey means "Water of Life"
emr4 TIL Tobacco is fertilized with radioactive apatite, the radiation received from smoking a pack a day per year compares to receiving 2,000 modern chest x-rays a year.
Ob5e TIL that your nose is always visible to you. Your mind ignores it through a process called Unconscious Selective Attention.
GYjoQ TIL in algebra, letters at the beginning of the alphabet (a, b, c) is used to represent known quantities, whereas the letters at the end of the alphabet (x, y, z) are used to denote unknown quantities.