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TIL Pandora's box was actually a jar.

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Z8RLa TIL Sir Patrick Stewart invented the concept of Race-reversed casting, or photo negative casting, which has white actors playing traditionally black characters and vice versa.
xbd7 TIL William Lawrence Murphy invented the Murphy Bed because he lived in a one room apartment and the strict moral code of the time frowned upon a woman entering a man’s bedroom. Murphy’s invention converted his bedroom into a parlor, thus enabling him to entertain women.
VeYZ TIL that the Honeybee is probably the smartest insect species existing, their unusual and impressive skill set include: “Advanced symbolic communication, language, facial recognition, number use, observation and mimicry, understanding of rules, and high-level problem-solving.”
4XY5N TIL about the illusion of explanatory depth, which leads people to overestimate how knowledgable they really are, but can be counteracted by asking them to explain how things work
wooE1 TIL about Splendid China (Orlando, Florida, 1993-2003) a $100 million theme park owned by the People's Republic of China