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TIL the 1990 film Dick Tracy only used seven colors in the movie, all of them exactly the same shade.

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9wMPr TIL that a consumer reports analysis in 2014 confirmed that 656 rice products had worrisome levels of arsenic exposure from brown and white rice, and that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set a limit for total arsenic consumption in drinking water, but no such limits for food/other beverages
9w4bD TIL about Yule logs, which are logs burns on a hearth to celebrate Yule
4Bbo TIL that if a window is tilted 45° to match a gable roof line, it’s called a “witch window” because witches are said to be unable to fly their brooms through a tilted window.
wlGY TIL that the intense rationing in England during WWII actually reduced infant mortality by guaranteeing nutrition to everyone.
Brvdb TIL Rankin and Bass animators in Japan who worked on classic Christmas specials like Santa Clause is Coming to Town and Frosty the Snowman later were part of founding Studio Ghibli where they worked on My Neighbor Totoro and other classic Miyazaki films.