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TIL cookies came from bakers making small “test cakes” to test the temperature of wood-fired ovens

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wLk81 TIL the term "Napoleon Dynamite Problem" is used to describe the phenomenon where "quirky" films such as Napoleon Dynamite, Lost in Translation and I Heart Huckabees prove difficult for researchers to create algorithms able to predict whether or not a viewer will like a certain film.
OGEye TIL that in the Little Mermaid TV series Ariel basically executes a villain who's tied up and defenseless.
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d88kr TIL: According to the book “What If”- after humans are extinct, the last remaining man-made light source would be Cherenkov radiation, which would glow an eerie blue for centuries.
ema5 TIL that a whale’s ear wax builds up over the course of its life and can be analysed like tree-rings.