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TIL Dave Grohl uses his Grammy as a doorstop

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mxAPR TIL of bematists of ancient Greek and Egypt, trained professionals who were hired to measure distance by counting their highly accurately spaced steps. The mathematician Eratosthenes worked out the circumference of the Earth using bematists' work.
x6Xb7 TIL during the rise of Japan as a major economic power, seen as an economic threat to the US, anti-Japanese sentiment was so high that a Chinese American was beaten to death before his wedding on the assumption that he was Japanese. In 1987, US congressmen smashed Toshiba products on Capitol Hill
A9Rw TIL there was a vinyl record format that could play videos: the Capacitance Electronic Disc.
epmkk TIL that 35% of cases of borderline personality disorder are hereditary.
QOX9 TIL of Ryan Holle. A man sentenced to life in prison for lending his car to his roommate and going back to sleep drunk. His roommate robbed a drug dealer and killed a teenager.