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TIL That a group of ferrets is known as a "Business"!
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TIL that during WWI, some 120,000 Belgian civilians (of both sexes) were used as forced labour by the Germans, with roughly half being deported to Germany and half being sent to work just behind the front lines.
woE76
TIL that the bridge explosion scene in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" was done the first time without any cameras rolling, and director Sergio Leone, after realizing the mistake told his crew "Let's go eat". The crew built the bridge again the next day.
69K4W
TIL in Taiwan there is a superstition that requires a bag of a specific puffed corn snack (乖乖) on or near electronics to keep them working correctly, and that even semiconductor giant TSMC abides
jXZX
TIL humans may have accidentally caused climate change once before– 11,000 years ago, by killing off woolly mammoths, which transformed North American grasslands into birch forests, which in turn burned so intensely that the climate in North America changed.
aw5jo
TIL the movie "Fifty First Dates" is actually inspired by a true story. Michelle Philpots suffered two auto accidents, and over the following few years developed memory issues which eventually caused her to wake up every morning stuck in 1994 and before.