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TIL A term ‘tittytainment’ stating a global trap that 80% of population will live in a numb ‘happy life’ with various entertainments, frustrated by the other 20% who actually keep the economy running.

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8aJNb TIL The house in Parasite (2019) was not a real house, but a set constructed to Bong Joon Ho' s script and specific camera needs. Lee Ha Jun, who is also the production designer on BJH's earlier film 'Snowpiercer', designed the house from scratch to match the story and blocking requirements.
kOOkB TIL "grawlixes" are typographical symbols standing in for profanities in comic strips, appearing in dialogue balloons in place of actual dialogue.
wLkyW TIL that the writer of the hymn "Amazing Grace" had an incredibly filthy mouth. During his time as a sailor he was: "admonished several times for not only using the worst words the captain had ever heard, but creating new ones to exceed the limits of verbal debauchery"
OoP0X TIL A field sobriety test doesn't determining whether you're sober or not or even to what degree you are intoxicated. It is simply a means for a cop to obtain evidence that you are intoxicated even if you're not.
VMKPG TIL there are more possible iterations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe.