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TIL Beetlejuice was only in 17.5 minutes of his own 1.5 hour movie.

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KYYkR TIL Galen argued that the liver must be the primary organ of the body because of its role in the production of the humours. The word for "liver" was often substituted for “heart” in ancient Greek poetry, in phrases like "hit in the liver"
8aPB4 TIL: The first, and so far only, time Gallup asked "Which Country Is The Greatest Threat to World Peace?" the US came first with three times the vote for second place.
KReG TIL 70% of science and engineering students in Iran are women.
vPYA4 TIL that there is a tradition in the U.S. Navy that no submarine is ever lost. Those that go to sea and do not return are considered to be “still on patrol.”
WkrKB TIL that to establish jurisdiction in the Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing (Lockerbie), Camp Zeist, a former United States Air Force base in the Netherlands, was, in 2000, temporarily declared sovereign territory (Exclave) of the United Kingdom, in order to allow the trial to take place.