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TIL that Robert Shaw was only 46 years old when he was filmed as Quint for Jaws (1975, filmed 1974). He died of a heart attack only a few years later at 51.

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QJdO6 TIL the saying "to work up an appetite" originated from back when people would become hungry as the result of physical labor AND THEN consume food. Wow, the more you know! These days, I've just been saying, "Man, I really jerked up the ability to binge-eat an entire carrot cake."
J8Dj TIL the term the “grandfather clause” comes from US segregation laws, wherein tests designed to disenfranchise African-Americans would also disenfranchise poor Southern whites as well. The workaround was that people were allowed to vote if their grandfathers had been allowed to as well.
dDW68 TIL for more than 1000 miles of the Trans-Australian Railway there no natural water sources. When the line was first built in 1907 half of a trains load had to be water for the steam engines.
O997 TIL that MIT students can get a course credit for surfing Reddit - while doing research and analysis on the site and its community.
R5xR1 TIL there are over 60 countries that have never won a single Summer Olympic medal. There are further 40 countries that have never won a single Gold medal.