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TIL that when a 10 year old girl with cancer was too sick to see UP in theaters, Pixar flew out a DVD and a Pixar employee to her home for a private screening. She died 7 hours later.

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YpvGr TIL as women enter middle age, they experience a rapid decline in facial attractiveness (regardless of cultural beauty standards) as compared to their male counterparts which scientists believe mirrors their quickly diminishing fertility.
oRexY TIL The term “Romance languages” has nothing to do with being languages of love, but rather because they all descend from the same parent language- Latin, the language of the Romans. The English term “romance” descends from the French word for a particular Latin dialect called Romanicus.
M7er0 TIL about the Rotogravure, an 125-year old rotary printing press technique still used for pictures, postcards, and cardboard products.
M7R07 TIL - The US Army once gave a very passionate disadulation to cyclists who tried to make leisure bicycling in the Arlington National Cemetery legal. Partially due to cyclists refused to yield to funeral precessions.
770r TIL Credit card “chip” technology (aka EMV) that is being rolled out now in the US is almost 25 years old