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TIL about pink-slime journalism, when untrustworthy American news networks disguise themselves as local news outlets. Over 1,000 pink-slime news outlets exist, pretending to be locally-run but producing low-quality news from afar that's meant to benefit a political party.

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EgOao TIL Smaller families of 1-2 children are not a new phenomena as many believe in the developed world. America dropped below 2.1 births per woman all the way back in 1973; most developed countries are the same, dropping below replacement rate in the 70s and early 80s.
g1lD TIL that the word “orient” comes from the Latin word “oriens”, meaning East because in the Middle Ages many maps were drawn with East at the top. So to “orient” them you had to turn them so that East was facing up.
j6Z9j TIL that the work of composer Antonio Vivaldi was almost completely lost until the 20th century, when violinist Fritz Kreisler published one of his own pieces as a fake "Vivaldi". This prompted a major resurgence in academic interest in Vivaldi, and his "Four Seasons" is now especially famous.
alWN TIL that one theory on why we live in three dimensions is that when the Big Bang occurred, only 3 of the 9 spatial dimensions expanded infinitely.
wow5P TIL that Barbie was created by Ruth Handler, who saw a market for adult dolls since most at the time represented infants. Barbie was redesigned from a doll she found in Germany that was depicted as a "working girl" and described as sassy, ambitious, and “a gold-digger, exhibitionist, and floozy."