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TIL The two forward slashes in website URLs are useless, and Tim Berners-Lee has apologized for it’s design.

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mkZv TIL when corn was first utilized by colonists and Europeans, they ignored the Native American’s process of first treating it with lime-water, which makes available the corn’s niacin to the body. As a result of their dependence on the crop, hundreds of thousands died of Pellagra, a niacin deficiency.
WkvY4 TIL IMAX Movie platter weights 250kg (550lb).
vg1x TIL experiments were held that tested responses to potential threats from white and black strangers. The results determined that unarmed blacks were shot more than whites, even among black subjects tested. “The trend is less likely a function of active prejudice than of ambient social stereotypes.”
rGm0 TIL that the girl who voice acted Lilo in Lilo and Stitch went on to play the creepy girl in The Ring.
69YBJ TIL that while both male and female mosquitos buzz, males are rarely heard by humans as they don't drink blood. Female mosquitos buzz at a higher frequency.