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TIL that The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis.

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XE05r “Screw you Apple, where the goddamn hell is my middle finger emoji?” can soon be conveyed in far fewer characters, thanks to the middle finger emoji that’s coming to your iPhone. But why did it take so long? Here’s how those middle fingers—and all emoji—make their way to your screens.
LkO60 TIL a guy tried to raise his son bilingually in English and Klingon. The experiment failed when the child got older and refused to use Klingon.
5Yn1r TIL Peter Jackson made a huge push to get Andy Serkis nominated for his role as Gollum in ‘Lord of the Rings.’ The Academy denied his request, stating that the motion-capture performance was ineligible as it “technically wasn’t the actor being nominated for the role, but rather the character.”
eVxL TIL The Soviet Union tried to drill through the Earth’s crust just to see what would happen.
vPlZB TIL that in 1999, Jim Henson’s children bought Charlie Chaplin’s historic 1917 studio in Hollywood for $12.5M as the new home of The Jim Henson Company. Once Chaplin’s and briefly Hanna-Barbera’s first studio, it later housed A&M Records. A Kermit statue as Chaplin’s Tramp now stands at the entrance