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TIL the director Christopher Nolan recorded two separate commentary tracks for the DVD version of “Mememto” in order to mislead the audience. The alternate track is triggered every other time you play the audio commentary.

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OoGgg When a United Airlines flight made an emergency landing this summer due to medical situations on board, as the oxygen masks fell down, some passengers’ phone cameras went up. But psychologists say the instinct to snap a selfie in a near-death experience isn’t all narcissism—it’s also about survival and self-preservation.
yKBJ TIL Russian scientist successfully cloned a plant that became extinct 30000 years ago (in the Pleistocene age), the plant bore fruit and continued reproducing on it’s own.
X0MkQ TIL: In 2020, Columbians shipped 130 grams of cocaine to Italy, inside individually hollowed out coffee beans. They were caught when a customs official noticed the "sender" shared the same name as a mafia boss in John Wick.
rNR5d TIL that there are some states in the US where children as young as 14 are allowed to drive.
b6X0 TIL in the sixties USA considered detonating a nuclear warhead on the moon to boost morale