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TIL the speed and direction of your computer mouse is measured in a unit called the Mickey, which is equal to the smallest movement your cursor can make on a computer screen

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QNkgX TIL Olympia, Washington's Chinatown was once known as "Locke Town" as Chinese residents were predominantly from the Lok family villages in southern China. WA governor Gary Locke's grandfather settled in Olympia as a teenager from China in 1890. There is no more Chinatown in Olympia
kOd61 TIL that despite one playing a high school senior and the other playing a middle-aged divorced cop, Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen are only one year and a half apart in age. During the filming of Superbad, Hill was 24 and Rogen was 25.
GA9MQ TIL: That in Southern India the elderly are regularly killed by their families using coconut water. The practice is called Thalaikoothal.
VMmEB TIL that cosmic dust adds about 40,000 metric tons per year to Earth’s mass.
RyK7 TIL that to make the Snickers Brady Bunch commercial, the stand-in actors had to have the exact same chin, mouth, and lip proportions as the original Bradys, and had to keep their heads as still as possible to make tracking the faces easier.