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TIL only one person correctly guessed who shot Mr. Burns in the Simpson’s 1995 contest. The person made a post online and the writers wanted to give them a special gift, but they were unable to find the anonymous poster and on the DVD commentary, they were still searching for the individual

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NmnP TIL People who have facial Botox injections have difficulty identifying emotional expressions in facial photos. Scientists suspect the Botox prevents facial mirroring which hinders the brain’s ability to interpret emotions in others.
VML5p TIL that a daemon is a computer program that runs as a background process (like a mailer-daemon). The name is taken from Maxwell's demon, an imaginary being from a thought experiment that constantly works in the background, sorting molecules.
xdED TIL that there used to be a system of mountain beacons, much like in LOTR, where a message could be sent hundreds of miles in less than an hour.
KYKbB TIL the origin of the Blues Brothers was a Saturday Night Live sketch in 1976 in which Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi performed the 1957 Slim Harpo song "I'm a King Bee". They were dressed in bee costumes.
rRbX1 TIL that kids can hear sounds that adults can't