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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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KoQQ TIL Walt Disney’s mood swings were so unpredictable that employees were advised to call the security guard to see how he was feeling whenever he arrived at the studio. If he was in a particularly bad mood, Walt was said to be wearing his ‘bear suit’.
kJ6g TIL that when Bill Nye The Science Guy’s father was a POW in Japan during WWII for four years, he made sundials to figure out the latitudinal location of the prison camp.
D11ZV There are two ways to go about testing this, neither of which are practical.
9YOM6 TIL about Duane Syndrome, a congenital condition in which one eye can not move horizontally while the other eye is unimpaired
awlYA TIL that Tolkien wrote yearly letters to his children as if they were from Father Christmas. They started off as simple Happy Christmas letters but grew more complex including a polar bear sidekick, the man on the moon, goblins, snow-elves, pictures, and he even developed an Arktik language.