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TIL that men get piss all over everything because of Plateau-Rayleigh instability - not necessarily because our aim is off

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X0kVX TIL: Thomas Harriot invented binary numbers to measure wine
Ajbo TIL in film-making that ‘wrap’, referring to the completion of film-shooting, is actually an abbreviation for 'Wind, Reel, And Print’ and an entirely-completed film is termed 'in the can’. The terms came from the early days of filming.
YpWYd TIL The First Instance Of Cats On Film Was Of Two Cats Boxing Filmed By Thomas Edison In 1894
gMXA7 TIL that the phrase “don’t wear white after Labor Day.” Was just one of dozens of rules set buy high society women defining “old money” from “new money” as more and more people became millionaires after the civil war in the late 1800’s.
a8Nx0 TIL While Michelangelo was painting the Last Judgement, Papal MC Biagio de Cesana spied on his work. And complained that it was not worthy of the Sistine Chapel. In response Michelangelo painted Biagio into the fresco, as the depiction of Minos being dragged to Hell with a snake biting his penis.