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TIL: That unexposed photography negatives can be stored without damage for 100+ years

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YR0W TIL if each star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, with a trillion people living on them, and each of these people has a trillion packs of cards and somehow they manage to make unique shuffles 1,000 times per second since the Big Bang, they’d only be starting to repeat shuffles now.
7rDPZ TIL the band Radiohead derived their name from the actor who portrayed Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day.
NX74J TIL that there is one Academy Award winning performance that is lost: Emil Jannings won the first Best Actor prize for 'The Way of All Flesh', which has no known surviving complete copies.
Daee TIL of the Great Emu War, in which Australia deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to fight against a horde of 20,000 Emus that were terrorizing the countryside; it was largely unsuccessful.
WXMY TIL that a New Orleans police officer committed an armed robber murdering a uniformed policeman and two employees in the process. One employee hid in the freezer and was spared, the officer returned to “investigate” the crime and was identified by the survivor as the shooter.