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TIL that the 'bullet time' effect made famous by The Matrix was first used in a Smirnoff commercial directed by Michel Gondry.

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LQyvP TIL that coffee was originally consumed as wine, when coffee beans were first discovered in Ethiopia, they were fermented and consumed as a type of wine. It wasn't until later that the practice of roasting and brewing the beans as we know it today emerged.
e0VW4 TIL Phil Spector repeatedly pointed loaded guns at Leonard Cohen while producing one of his albums. At one point Spector shoved a revolver into his neck while holding a bottle of kosher red wine and said, ‘Leonard, I love you.’ Leonard Cohen responded by saying ‘I hope you do, Phil.'
QNvjE TIL that Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial twenty-five years after being burned at the stake.
wLxJ6 TIL unlike WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War, there is no national monument in Washington D.C. dedicating to U.S. service members who fought in World War I.
QNynM TIL Champagne bottles are named after biblical kings and figures, from the Jeroboam (three liters) up to the Melchizedek (thirty liters).