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TIL The close-up shots in cartoons that detail how gross something is about a situation or character is called dubbbed, gross-ups, specificity in the Ren and Stimpy cartoon.

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Wk6M9 TIL it dramatically reduces the life of a Lithium-ion battery to completely charge to 100% or for it to drain to 0%
P1YeV TIL George Preddy, #1 ranked P-51 Mustang ace of WW2 with 26.83 enemy air-to-air kills, was was shot down and killed by friendly fire on Christmas Day 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge
m1xdp TIL the carriage used in President Kennedy’s funerary procession has an interesting history of its own. It also once carried the remains of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, and the Unknown Soldier in 1921.
1bP4 TIL that a consultant for Richard Nixon suggested a pro-administration news channel to be paid for by the White House dedicated to putting the GOP in a better light. This man was Roger Ailes, who went on to start Fox News in 1996.
lovpB TIL of the slow movement, which advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace, and "doing everything as well as possible, instead of as fast as possible." It began with a protest against the opening of a McDonald's in Rome in 1986. "It’s about quality over quantity in everything."