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TIL barcode scanners scan the white bars not the black ones

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loopr TIL the Super Bowl holds every spot in the Top 20 Most Viewed TV Broadcasts in the US of All Time. Except #9, which goes to the MAS*H finale 'Goodbye, Farewell and Amen', which attracted a viewership of 105.9 million in 1983.
j67Qv TIL Anaxagoras was one of the first to assert that the Moon reflected sunlight and did not produce light by itself; a statement translated as “the sun induces the moon with brightness” was found in his writings.
9Ya86 TIL that Alexender Graham Bell tried to eliminate American sign language and deaf schools in the U.S because he was afraid of a deaf race emerging from it.
BrPeW TIL that if you get a doctorate in Finland, you get a special doctoral hat and sword.
yrVl TIL In Iceland in the 70s a woman became convinced she’d subconsciously witnessed a murder, this led to six people being wrongly arrested and all confessing despite remembering nothing