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TIL actress Tippi Hedren is directly responsible for over half of the manicurists in the country (and 80 percent in Southern California) being Vietnamese.

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BgxlD TIL of Operation Gideon (2020): a failed attempt by American private military company, Silvercorp, to get rid of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, and place pro-U.S. Juan Guaidó in power.
Z8VQB TIL studies have shown that 47% of adult male prisoners have a history of traumatic brain injury. Over two thirds had their first brain injury before their first offence.
BgREy TIL that long formal movies had to come in two-parts and people back then would have to swap part1 out with part2 to finish watching a movie!
Gw5J TIL of “Decimal Time,” a unit of time that divides the day into 10 hours, an hour into 100 minutes, and a minute into 100 seconds.
YZVZ TIL: The rarest thing in the universe is the element Astatine, number 85 on the periodic table. What makes it so rare is that over time it turns into something else, in the matter of hours.