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PY9PL TIL during the premiere of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 241 people walked out of the theater demanding to know what the film was about. Creator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “If you understand ‘2001’ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”
xd07 TIL: After Domino’s admitted their pizza tasted bad in 2010 and reinvented their pizza, The company’s stocks have outperformed every large tech company in the past decade.
4Pdg TIL of Zao Village, Japan, where foxes are allowed to go where they please
p8nYe TIL: Alan Shepard pulled out a makeshift six-iron he smuggled on board Apollo 14 and hit two golf balls on the lunar surface, becoming the first -- and only -- person to play golf anywhere other than Earth.
VBX9k TIL that in the late 1800s, pharmaceutical company Bayer was trying to find a safer version of their popular cold medicine, morphine. This accidentally resulted in the creation and marketing of one of the most addictive and dangerous drugs, diacetylmorphine, commonly know today as “heroin”