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TIL artists in 1899, upon being asked what the year 2000 would look like, drew these.

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KNmQ TIL a man from Ohio bought $650 worth of tickets for the movie “The Interview” hoping to resell them for a higher price was declined a refund from the theater he bought them from after Sony decided to stream the movie online for half the price.
nwr7 TIL the biggest explosion before the atom bomb, was caused on accident, killed 2k, injured 9k, launched an anchor of a ship flying over 2 miles, exposed the harbour floor, and reached heat over 9000 degrees
GA6eE TIL the Citicorp Center engineering crisis where it was discovered the 53-floor building was improperly built and would collapse under hurricane-force winds. Such a hurricane was due approximately every sixteen years and a massive reconstruction effort was launched to reinforce the building.
OG54 TIL that Frank Zappa pulled his kids out of school at age 15 and refused to pay for college.
b9PBE TIL that the character Roz Doyle (played by Peri Gilpin in Frasier 1993-2003) is named as a tribute to a producer of the television series Wings (having the same creators as Frasier), who died from breast cancer in 1991