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TIL that the term “easter egg” originates from the the 1975 movie “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” when the cast had an Easter Egg hunt but most of the eggs went unfound. They can be seen throughout the film in various locations.

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Ye1B TIL the sign language equivalent of a tongue-twister is known as a finger-fumbler.
N7PO8 TIL that a doctor on an Air Canada flight jerry-rigged a device to help a toddler breath who was having an asthma attack. Dr. Khurshid Guru, director of Robotic Surgery at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, created a nebulizer using a water bottle, a cup, oxygen, and an adult inhaler.
vVBr TIL According to Saudi Arabian law, women are not allowed to drive cars but are allowed to fly planes.
R6El TIL Stephen Colbert founded a shell corporation in Delaware named Anonymous Shell Corporation so it could be given large donations to anonymously funnel into his Super PAC, he asked FMR. FEC Chairman Trevor Potter how it was different from money laundering. Potter’s response was “It’s hard to say.”
BrVly TIL that our palms and soles of feet cannot tan like the rest of our bodies regardless of how much sun they are exposed to. This due to a thick layer of dead skin that prevents UV rays from being exposed to the living cells