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TIL After Mario Puzo won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for The Godfather, having had no prior experience writing screenplays, he bought a book on screenwriting. The book's instruction was basically "Study The Godfather"

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b6Pm9 TIL the Norwegian government pension fund has over 1.7 trillion US dollars (~325,000 per citizen). This is 1.5% of the world's listed companies, the result of decades of investing oil revenues. Some companies can't be in the portfolio due to ethical concerns, e.g. Lockheed Martin and Philip Morris.
GRR7 TIL Billy Joe Armstrong came out as bisexual in 1995 saying that all people were born bisexual and just caused to change by social pressures.
JYgkk TIL that Chichen Itza was constructed so that on the spring and autumn equinox it creates the image of a snake slithering down the pyramid to honor the Mayan deity Kukulan, the Feathered Serpent.
VMAX8 TIL that an asteroid was named after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2007 in recognition of her finishing 2nd in an international science fair while she was in high school.
oB018 TIL Florida to release genetically modified mosquitoes to prevent diseases like Zika