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TIL Ted Danson wears a toupee when filming.

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XKQQ TIL some ducks have been observed floating through tidal rapids or fast-moving sections of rivers, and when they’ve reached the end, hurrying back to the beginning to ride over and over.
1O8X TIL The Nation of Islam believe that white people were invented as an evil race by a scientist named Yakub, 6,600 years ago. The experiment also produced ‘red, yellow and brown’ people. Some of the white people Yakub created ultimately became gorillas.
W7gZo TIL that "The Birth of a Nation," a 1915 silent film, became the highest grossing film for twenty-five years and revolutionized the film industry with its technical effects and first-time use of a musical score.
oRY9E TIL Mathematician Kurt Godel's wife Adele was employed as a dancer at a cabaret when they met. Aside from the continuing disapproval of his family, Adele faced rejection and isolation in the academic community as well, particularly when the couple settled at Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
ogpW TIL that women are responsible for 90% of modern language changes, with teenage girls historically having been the linguistic innovators