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TIL The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Dawkins also provided a handy tip on how to say it: "It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'."

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5Z58 TIL that during the making of “The Silence of the Lambs”, Jodie Foster was so terrified of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter that she avoided him and never actually spoke to him until the last day of filming.
OolgL TIL Owners of sports teams are allowed to write their players' contracts off as depreciating assets in order to obtain huge tax benefits.
oRmlE TIL that the term “missionary position” was likely invented by sexologist Alfred Kinsey and based on a misunderstanding of an earlier book. Regardless, the term has since been adopted into French, German, Spanish, and Dutch
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