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TIL about the practice of Thalaikoothal , the practice of using coconut water to perform Senicide, the act of killing of an aged person

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oBp48 Til that if adjusted for inflation,The Birth of a Nation(1915) is the first ever film to gross a over a billion dollars,at 1.8 billion dollars gross(in modern money),making it the forth highest grossing film ever.
vPwmR TIL I learned that Andy Weir, author of the Martian, worked at Blizzard Entertainment to make Warcraft II
X00ZP TIL in 1994, mathematician Peter Shor created a fast way to factor numbers in a quantum computer. The first quantum computer wouldn't be invented until 1998.
OgKL TIL The neon flying squid engages in behaviors that prolong its time airborne, and thus is considered to be closer to actual flight than just gliding.
DQM7e TIL The first non-Christian, non-Caucasian superhero in American comic books was Kismet (Man of Fate), an Algerian superhero who debuted in 1944.