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TIL the Panama Canal is running out of water.

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Y7GlP TIL how and why the timeless classic Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window was shot from exactly ONE position.
MLN8 TIL in 1926 a Pasadena mailman planted some avocado seeds intending to graft with the desirable Fuerte variety. The graft repeatedly failed on one tree and he was going to cut it down, but was advised to “wait and see what happens”. It became the mother tree from which all Hass avocados originate.
eN8k TIL Splenda’s sweet taste was discovered when a scientist who was told “test this chemical” misheard it as “taste this chemical”.
WkAYd TIL of Mostelaria, or "the haunted house": a Roman comedy play by Plautus, about a young man who trashes his father's house in a party while the latter in on a business trip and invents a story about the house been haunted in order to delay his father when he unexpectedly returns
a5RM TIL that in 1978, over 500 silent films were discovered buried in the Yukon permafrost, including footage of the scandalous 1919 World Series.