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TIL that a one-way mirror is also called a two-way mirror

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OL1Y TIL actor Dave Foley can’t return to Canada withoutt going to jail because he owes 600,000 and is “ literally obligated to give away 400% of my income, or otherwise go to jail.”
5VQyR TIL that when "Blackmail" premiered in 1929 as the first British film with sound and dialogue, two years after American sound films hit British theaters, it was promoted with the tagline "See and Hear it! Our mother tongue as it should be spoken!"
7rZ47 TIL that California produces 100% of the U.S almond supply and 80% of the global almond supply
MeLkV TIL "bury the lede" is spelled L E D E and has nothing to do with the word lead.
JYV4Q TIL of Samuel L. Gravely Jr. He was the first African American in the U.S. Navy to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, the first fleet commander, and the first to become a flag officer, retiring as a vice admiral.