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TIL Despite basing ‘O Brother, Where art Thou?’ on The Odyssey, neither of the Coen Brothers had ever read the Epic and were only familiar with the plot through adaptations and pop culture references.

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VBEJD TIL The team that developed aureomycin, the first broad spectrum antibiotic ever discovered, consisted of a Harvard discriminated Indian scientist, an age discriminated scientist who was the son of a Confederate officer, and a preeminent black doctor in the 1940s.
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