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TIL that the first colour frames in a film were used to be hand painted, by female artists.

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jnDa TIL that the phrase “It’s Greek to me” has analogues in many languages. In Greek, the foreign language in the saying is Turkish or Chinese. In Turkish, it’s French or Arabic. In French and Arabic, it’s Chinese. In Chinese, it’s “ghost script,” “bird sounds,” or “chicken intestines.”
y9ma TIL the Mary Poppins word Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious breaks down into: super- “above”, cali- “beauty”, fragilistic- “delicate”, expiali- “to atone”, and -docious “educable”, with the roughly meaning, “atoning for educability through delicate beauty.
7V4p TIL the short urinals aren’t for children, they’re for wheelchairs.
yV9J TIL there is a highly venomous spider in Australia whose fangs are able to penetrate a shoe.
0wVwp TIL Inuit and Yupik people of Alaska and Northern Canada carved narrow slits into ivory, antler and wood creating snow goggles to prevent snow blindness.