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TIL about the Little Joe, a hand-held pistol crossbow used by the OSS from 1942 to 1945

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7RMr TIL that the first Final Fantasy was programmed by a single developer who did not “fully understand what an RPG was”
jlya TIL actor John Hurt played polar opposite roles in both 1984 and V for Vendetta, first as Winston, the protagonist being oppressed by Big Brother in 1984, and then as High Chancellor Sutler, the Big Brother-like oppressor in V for Vendetta.
dDDar TIL SETI itself has maintained that "Contact (1997 film) is indescribably more accurate in its depiction of SETI than any Hollywood film in history."
8eK5V TIL cuttlefish were commonly used throughout Greece and Rome for their reddish-brown pigment. Cuttlefish were called sepia in Latin and Greek, hence the English sepia.
R7Y87 TIL that a Korean civil minister named Choe Yun-ui created the first printing press 150 years before Gutenberg was born.