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TIL in the 1970s when John Williams first demonstrated the two-note "Jaws" danger theme to director Steven Spielberg, he laughed, thinking it was a joke. Spielberg later said the movie would have been only half as successful without Williams.

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N19M TIL that Puyi, the last Emperor of China, spent his last years as a commoner in Beijing under the communist regime. On his first day of work as a street sweeper, he was lost and told passersby, “I’m Puyi, the last Emperor of the Qing dynasty. I’m staying with relatives and can’t find my way home.”
R7AN1 TIL that General Douglas MacArthur's father was a colonel in the American Civil War. So when MacArthur considered using Nukes during the Korean War, the son of a Civil War officer was wielding a nuclear arsenal.
R7oA9 TIL that, depending on the species, most bamboos only flower once every 60 to 130 years - often simoultanesly worldwide, regardless of the geographic location.
DlYp TIL that India’s richest man is offering free 4G internet service to everyone in the country
Y7yVW TIL Isaac Newton was extremely religious, and he rejected the Trinity.