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TIL 93% of all humans who have ever existed are dead

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MeGa0 TIL 'Golden Age' 3-D movies had a built-in intermission point around the 50 minute mark. Carbon arc rods on the projectors used for the light source could not burn for more than an hour. The intermission would last 10 minutes, enough time to re-thread both projectors and install new carbon rods.
KYAMR TIL that when Jack Webb, most known as Sergeant Joe Friday in the TV & radio police procedural Dragnet, died. Friday’s badge number in the LAPD (714) was retired and, Webb was buried with full police honors.
6E8Ql TIL 54 oenology (wine science) students were secretly given white wine dyed with tasteless red food coloring and they overwhelmingly described the flavors as if it were red wine.
8aAKX TIL that Princess Diana's funeral was watched by approximately 2.5 billion people, which, in 1997, was about 43% of the entire population of Earth.
joep TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch doesn’t like the term ‘Cumberbitches’. He said: “I won’t allow you to be my bitches. I think it sets feminism back so many notches. You are… Cumberpeople.”