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TIL: Wine-tasting is mostly junk science.
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TIL Mozilla is originally a portmanteau of "Mosaic Killer", the dominant browser at the time. Mosaic was then renamed to Netscape, which forced Microsoft to in turn create Internet Explorer.
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TIL about Appalachiosaurus, the Alabama cousin of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, named in 2005 by Thomas Carr, Thomas Williamson, and David Schwimmer.
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TIL that in the close up shot of Bridget von Hammersmark (played by Diane Kruger) being strangled it is Tarantino’s hands being used and she is actually being strangled because Tarantino wanted to have it as realistic looking as possible.
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TIL in South Korea, military members (mandatory for all male citizens) found to be homosexual through a psychology test can either be institutionalized or dishonorably discharged
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TIL the African Clawed Frog provided the first well-documented method of detecting pregnancy in women. Injecting urine from a pregnant woman into a frog resulted in the frog laying eggs shortly after.