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TIL in japanese folklore it was believed that sometimes when an object reached it’s 100th birthday it would become alive and self-aware

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4ka1X TIL that the Panopticon prison design used centrally positioned guards to create the illusion of constant surveillance, ensuring low-cost control over inmates behavior
7rpAb TIL that Milky Way obstructs our view of around 20% of the extragalactic sky at visible wavelengths. That area is called the Zone of Avoidance and it is the reason humans do not have a complete picture of the extragalactic sky yet.
9Y7VB TIL despite having been discontinued in most of the world in the mid-1990s and having exited the video game console market, the 8-bit Sega Master System is still produced in Brazil, and its market share rivals more modern gaming systems there
dWAj TIL between 1993-98, a majority of US Senators were trading stocks and beating the market by 12 percentage points a year on average. By comparison, corporate insiders beat the market by 5 percent, and typical households underperformed by 1.4 percent.
epgLJ TIL Crispin Glover, who played George McFly in Back to the Future, was replaced with actor Jeffrey Weissman in the sequel. They used shots of Glover from Back to the Future to make it more convincing. Glover was unhappy at this and sued, which resulted in the adoption of stricter rules by the SAG.