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TIL France lost more soldiers in WW1 than the US has in its entire military history

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k74E TIL that Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Hannibal Lecter. His Screen time was little over 16 minutes, less than 14% of the film’s running time.
eWn6 TIL the spikes on the end of a Stegosaurus’s tail are called the “Thagomizer” after a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson.
Oa8g TIL Neil deGrasse was dismissed for jury duty as he teaches a class in Princeton that looks at the “evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.”
4lWN TIL that the woman who invented chocolate chip cookies sold the idea to Nestlé in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate
loR0a TIL: NASA calculated that Three Gorges Dam (Hubei) affected earth rotation. When the water level is at its maximum the dam contains 39.3 km3 of water and this altered the Earth’s moment of inertia slowing it's rotation of 0.06 microseconds.