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TIL During the Winter War, the Finns would prop up frozen Soviet soldiers to intimdate the troops

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mYRP TIL that during the filming of Rushmore, when Wes Anderson had to scrap a shot due to budgetary constraints, Bill Murray handed him a blank check to cover the cost.
VMgR8 TIL that 'Moron', 'Idiot', and 'Imbecile' were once valid Psychology terms for people with low IQ. When these terms entered vernacular usage as insults, they were disused in favor of 'Mental Retardation' which in turn was disused in favor of 'Intellectual Disability'.
9YamD TIL that the Taco Bell Chihuahua, Gidget, went on to play Bruiser's mom in Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde
AN987 TIL that Julie Kavner has a clause in her Simpsons contract that she doesn't have to promote herself on camera as Marge's voice
JY4Ml TIL of a study which suggests melatonin, the hormone associated with control of our sleep-wake cycles, evolved 700 million years ago from our tiny oceangoing ancestors that would swim to the surface of the sea at twilight and then sink into the depths of the ocean in a sleepy fall through the night.