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TIL of BAHFest, a satirization of TED talks produced to demonstrate that you could use a bad ad-hoc hypothesis to demonstrate anything. Like why babies are designed to be catapulted.

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7re0M TIL Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve became close friends after meeting at Julliard in 1973. “Occasionally Robin would need to switch off and have a serious conversation with someone, and I was always ready to listen... This has remained true for twenty-five years.”
XEdXP TIL the controversial 1946 Disney film "Song of the South" will go into public domain in 2039 and Disney will lose all copyright to the film if it does not get it released again, whether in theaters, home video, or streaming services
nWgvd TIL that a 29-year-old J. J. Abrams did uncredited work with Steven Spielberg on the script for 'Casper' (1995), with Spielberg making the movie "one night at a time...there was a script, but they ended up basically improvising every night over dinner, and the next day, they'd film it".
v1Zar TIL space is really really empty. If you add up the diameters of all the other planets + Pluto in our solar system ( 382,367km they )fit in the gap between the earth and the moon (384,400km)
P1bVJ TIL of Laura Jackson Arnold sister of Confederate general stonewall jackson was a staunch and unapoligetic supporter of the Union, while her brother became one of the most beloved generals in the Confederate Army. Their relationship was destroyed by the war, and they never saw each other again.