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TIL about Louis Le Prince, who mysteriously went missing, preventing him from revealing that he had invented the single-lens motion picture camera, long before Edison who is widely credited with the invention.

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EgdRx TIL About Leonardo Da Vinci's bridge : Designed in 15th century, It's a self-supporting bridge design that does not require any nails or fasteners to hold its structure . The bridge is made of a series of beams that crisscross each other like scissors, using the pressure to hold each other stable.
16x9d TIL That Spider-Man (2002) had footage made just for the trailer that involved escaping bank robbers in a helicopter getting caught in a giant web between the Twin Towers. However after 9/11, the studio pulled it from theaters.
WN1A TIL that in the early 90’s, a younger Bill Nye appeared on the Seattle sketch show “Almost Live” and corrected the host’s pronunciation of gigawatt. (It’s not jigowatt.) The host replied, “Who do you think you are—Bill Nye the Science Guy?” The nickname stuck.
OGoj7 TIL that the Pope is the head of two separate and distinct sovereign entities. Vatican City, A Sovereign City State, and the Holy See, a sovereign juridical entity that acts as the Universal Catholic Central Government.
X0el6 TIL one man, Lawrence Pazder, can be attributed to starting the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, with a book “Michelle Remembers”, about his patient and future wife, Michelle Proby. The entirety of Proby’s “satanic” abuse has been discredited.