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TIL The Beatles' 1965 film Help! was dedicated to Elias Howe who invented the sewing machine in 1846.

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QZXM TIL The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has more than 20,000 marijuana seeds, ensuring weed will survive the apocalypse.
OGa7 TIL the Egyptian king Psamitk I led an experiment to discover the origin of all languages by isolating two new-born babies, then waited for them to begin speaking unaided. It was agreed Phrygian was the original language of Mankind.
ADaBg TIL A person with damage to the right brain hemisphere can develope a "joke addiction", a compulsive need to constantly make jokes
rNeWM TIL that the winner of the 1927 Alaska Territorial Flag design competition was a seventh grade orphan named Benny Benson. He was awarded a watch with the flag emblem on it and 1,000 dollars for education that he put toward studying diesel mechanics.
0DVM TIL the 2020 Olympics will take place in Tokyo, as predicted in the manga Akira in 1982