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TIL people started using the term "dunce" to dunk on the followers of 13th-century Catholic priest, professor, and theologian John Duns Scotus.

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VMXv0 TIL that many early, animated Disney films were made by filming actors in real time and then tracing over their bodies frame by frame. This led to studios repurposing older animations as time went on, and helped develop modern-day roto-scoping and motion-capture technology.
lolla TIL Cancer death rates are down 25% since 1991, with 2.1 million deaths averted. The cancer death rate declines by about 1.5% annually in both men and women.
w0W1 TIL while Alfred Hitchcock was filming ‘The Pleasure Garden’, an actress refused to enter the water because she was on her period. It was the first time Hitchcock heard about menstruation, and a cameraman had to explain to him what she meant.
EWod TIL of the Holodomor, “Extermination by hunger”, a man-made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine
9w8O7 TIL: Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995.