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TIL barcode scanners scan the white bars not the black ones
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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.
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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.
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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.
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TIL that if you get a doctorate in Finland, you get a special doctoral hat and sword.
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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