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TIL Mel Gibson had no idea how to do a Scottish accent for Braveheart so he had dinner in Sean Connery's home and learned from the master

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Eg9vo TIL that Granula was the first manufactured breakfast cereal, invented by James Caleb Jackson in 1863. Not to be confused with Granola, which was later created by John Kellog, and renamed as Grape-Nuts to avoid being sued by Jackson.
v1vJL TIL that the Hubble Space Telescope consumes less power than a kitchen kettle.
4XN1R TIL RPG doesn't actually stand for "Rocket Propelled Grenade", but rather "ruchnoy protivotankovy granatomyot". Which means "hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher".
Q5XX TIL Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. “This means that if your finger were the size of the Earth you could feel the difference between houses and cars.”
XZZr TIL in 1559 a (male) surgeon claimed to have discovered the clitoris, announcing “ "Since no one has discerned these projections and their workings, if it is permissible to give names to things discovered by me, it should be called the love or sweetness of Venus”