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TIL that Zoe Saldana has apologized for playing Nina Simone in a movie. God forbid an actress pretend to be someone in a movie. Will she now have to apologize for playing Neytiri in Avatar, Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy?

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woMo TIL Yasunori Mitsuda, the composer for Chrono Trigger, nearly died making the music for the game.
MeQMV TIL that after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the prime minister of Portugal sent a query to parishes around the country in order to objectively understand what happened. He is now regarded as a forerunner of modern seismological scientists.
xVnaD TIL that the Japanese Zero fighter plane was named from the last digit of the Japanese Imperial year 2600 when it entered service
kLe5 TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.
OGe9Y TIL Jack London, author "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang," had referred to his first wife as "mother-girl" and to his second wife as "mate-woman."