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TIL Down syndrome used to be called Mongolism

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dJMZ TIL When Prince released “1999”, 1999 was as far in the future as it now is in the past (16.3 years).
X05JR TIL Dwayne the rock Johnson's movie contracts do not allow his character to lose fights
6EXJ TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.
R5ld7 TIL in 2005, a sheep jumped off a cliff in Turkey and 1500 sheep followed one by one. 450 sheep died and the rest survived by landing on the soft big pile of sheep.
VB5XB TIL Guinness World Records shifted from book sales to monetizing record-breaking attempts as book revenues declined in the 2000s. They charge up to $500,000 to help corporations and individuals create or break records, turning publicity stunts and partnerships into a lucrative business model.