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TIL Truman Capote initially wanted Marilyn Monroe to play as Holly Golightly in the film adaptation of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

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7awP TIL of a town in Buenos Aires that stayed 25 years under water. It wasn’t until 2009 that the water started to recede to reveal a post-apocalyptic scene.
5Y6J9 TIL, That since domestication, dogs' eyes have changed. Dogs now have eye muscles that make them more expressive and infant-like. These same muscles are absent in wolves, their closest relative.
loQ6K TIL that the United States hired former Wehrmacht Chief of Staff Franz Halder to write their official history of the Eastern Front of WWII to downplay Nazi war crimes in order to make the Soviets appear as bad as possible and was even awarded by the American government for his work
9jd7 TIL that Harvard professor Roger Fisher proposed implanting nuclear launch codes in a volunteer so that the President would have to kill an innocent person before firing. The Pentagon rejected the idea fearing the President would not go through with it even if it was necessary.
dD9j TIL that not caring whether there is a god or not is called Apatheism.