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TIL that, by law, the Metric System is the preferred measurement system in the United States.

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7nVM TIL Katie Holmes turned down returning as Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight to star in a critically derided crime film with Queen Latifah
9YlP6 TIL Monty Python and the Life of Brian would have never been made without £2 million in financing from George Harrison
JYLX1 TIL the US Secretary of Agriculture is named Sonny Perdue. However, he is not related to Frank Perdue of Perdue Farms.
o58o TIL in a dark room, it’s easier to see an object by not looking directly at it but rather next to it because of the distribution of cones and rods.
91ar TIL Goosebumps author RL Stine never include things like divorce, drug use, abuse in his books because he didn’t want to terrify kids. He wanted kids to be sure that his stories were fantasies that could never actually happen