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TIL that the original story for The Terminator came from Harlan Ellison ... or at least enough that a lawsuit forced James Cameron to acknowledge him in the credits.

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wLvJo TIL that the Earth was shown to be curved, and how big, as early as ancient Egypt.
MeD60 TIL Alexander the Great wept when he heard Anaxarchus teach about an infinite number of worlds. When his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"
dD09E TIL Inostrancevia were mammal-like reptiles which lived before dinosaurs, and some of the mammal-like reptiles evolved into modern mammals
mxayo TIL there was a country called United States of Central America, formed by El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras. That country was formed in August 1898 and dissolved in November of that year,
ADxPd TIL that the term "strafing" is a humorous adaptation of the German WW1 catchphrase "Gott strafe England" (may god punish England). The catchphrase derives from a hate song written by a jewish-german poet.