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TIL The infamous paperclip, Clippy, was an early animation project by ‘Deadpool’ director Tim Miller’s studio, Blur Studio.

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rR48x TIL that the Turkey bird is named after the country with the same name in English, while in Portuguese it is called ‘Peru’, in Arabic it is Deek Rumi ('Roman Rooster’), in Polish it is 'Indyk’ (after India), and in Turkish itself it is 'Hindi’.
VvAG TIL Between 2012 and 2014 France had a 75% super tax on earnings above €1m
KYdx9 TIL though the Egyptians themselves considered the Romans to be their pharaohs and the legitimate successors of the ancient pharaohs, the emperors themselves never adopted any pharaonic titles or traditions outside of Egypt, as these would have been hard to justify in the Roman world at large.
XE4bQ TIL that the colors of the NBC peacock represents the 6 divisions of the network which is news (Yellow), sports (Orange), entertainment (Red), stations (Purple), network (Blue), and productions (Green).
vlND TIL the author of the book Eragon, Christopher Paolini, started writing the book at age 14. It placed on the New York Times Children’s Books Best Seller list for 121 weeks.