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TIL: For decades, people pronounced the year 2000 as "twenty hundred" since it came after the 1800s and 1900s. But for the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey", Stanley Kubrick included specific instructions for journalists to refer to the movie as "two thousand and one"

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