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TIL movie frame rates were originally measured in feet of film per minute instead of in frames per second, which is where the term “footage” came from

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jN07Q TIL that there is a Namibian politician named Adolf Hitler. He won a local election and says he has no plans for world domination
P6Zg TIL there’s a sixth extinction event which is still ongoing and mostly caused by the arrival of humans
1aNkV TIL that ancient greek males were not ashamed of exposing their entire genitalia, only the glans. This led to the habit of covering it up with the foreskin using a special knot called "kynodesme", or dog tie.
Kvea TIL A Florida man was once wrongfully imprisoned for 21 years for killing his seven children with poison. He was released when the children’s babysitter confessed in a nursing home.
X00eX TIL the last monolingual Irish speaker died in 1998