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TIL the Internet movie database (launched in October 17, 1990) was launched before the World Wide Web (December 1990).

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GNZg TIL strongly held political beliefs reduce your reasoning ability, according to a study conducted at Yale.
p5Eb TIL that the human ear can’t tell where low frequencies come from, so that is why subwoofers can be hidden in home theaters or in trunks of cars.
nvZY TIL that shoe companies Adidas and Puma were started by feuding Nazi brothers.
0DVM TIL the 2020 Olympics will take place in Tokyo, as predicted in the manga Akira in 1982
gJvD TIL “If I Ran the Zoo” by Dr. Seuss, published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word “nerd.”