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Today I Learned (TIL)

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Posted by9 hours ago

TIL that 2 out of the 3 members of the boy band LFO have lost their lives to cancer.

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Posted by6 hours ago

TIL An estimated 50.000 Irish were made into indentured servants by Cromwell after he took Ireland in 1653.

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Posted by7 hours ago

TIL A slave couple escaped to the North in 1848 by disguising her, a light-skinned black woman, as his owner, and him, darker-skinned, as her valet. She was illiterate at the time, so they put her arm in a sling against signatures and pretended she was sick. An acquaintance nearly recognized them.

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Posted by2 hours ago

TIL When random people of varying physical attractiveness get placed into a room, the most physically attractive people tend to seek out each other and to congregate with only each other.

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Posted by17 hours ago

TIL the ending of "The Bourne Supremacy" was reshot just two weeks before its release. Director Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon came up with a new idea that would cost $200,000 and involve pulling Damon from the set of Ocean's 12. The movie tested 10 points higher with the new ending and made $176m.

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Posted by5 hours ago

TIL the ancient Nazca got water in the middle of the desert through an engineered series of 46 aqueducts running 12 m underground. They were built around 200-500 AD, and 32 of them are still used by local farmers today

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