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TIL of the acting agency “Amputees in Action,” which provides amputee actors to simulate gore and missing limbs in war movies like Saving Private Ryan.

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9wW9M TIL about garden path sentences which is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect
GmV4 TIL There was a Parrot named Alex that had a vocabulary of over 100 words. He was said to have the intelligence of a 5 year old. The last words he said to his trainer before passing away were “See you tomorrow, be good. I love you!”
pkQ4 TIL that when he was in hiding, Salman Rushdie immersed himself in Super Mario World, and joked that the best way to liberate Iran was to drop Nintendo consoles from the sky
GAkL7 TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. The university was founded in 1096, over 300 years before the founding of the Aztec Empire in 1428.
a8oPM TIL that there used to be a Middle Eastern neighborhood in Manhattan from the 1880s to the 1940s. The neighborhood was demolished to make way for the entrance ramps to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and later the original World Trade Center