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TIL there are actually six degrees of burns
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TIL The 2007 film Paranormal Activity was shot, directed and written by Oren Peli and cost only $15,000 to produce. After Paramount bought the film and began showing it in theaters it went on to gross over $193,000,000.
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TIL the real name of the actor that portrayed Wishbone was Soccer.
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TIL of the view that the response to the "Year 2000 problem" was indeed an overreaction, as evidenced by countries such as South Korea and Russia who invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation having the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money
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TIL of Dunbar's number, proposed by anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who found a correlation between primate brain size and avg. social group size. By using the avg. human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed humans can comfortably maintain only 150 stable relationships
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TIL German man Oskar Speck kayaked from Germany to Australia over the period 1932-1939. On his arrival in Australia, shortly after the start of WWII, Speck was interned as an enemy foreigner. He remained in prisoner-of-war camps for the duration of the war, but stayed in the country after the war