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TIL DirectX’s original name was ‘The Manhattan Project’ because it was Microsoft’s initiative to destroy Japanese dominance of the gaming industry.

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wEyJ TIL M. Night Shyamalan once watched Nickelodeon kid show ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark?’, and particularly enjoyed an episode called “The Tale of the Dream Girl”, which is about a kid who can communicate with the dead. The episode would influence him to write the screenplay for The Sixth Sense.
E1Yvw TIL Chiropractic is actually a form of "alternative medicine", where studies have not found evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective and collectively found that spinal manipulation was ineffective at treating any condition.
WMPX TIL Patrick Stewart left his bags unpacked for the first six weeks of filming Star Trek: TNG because he thought the show would fail.
XE1B6 TIL: NPR CarTalk Tom Magliozzi's grave stone has "It's not hard work that killed him" inscribed in Latin.
N70ZE TIL in the 1st century AD in Rome, the lead actor in the play, 'Laureolus," would be switched out in the end with a condemned criminal and actually crucified on stage.