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TIL: The movie Gone With The Wind, When adjusted for monetary inflation,is still the most successful film in box-office history.

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XERK8 TIL Researchers have developed a self-cleaning surface which uses nano-scale surface engineering and chemistry. It can repel/prevent the transfer of antibiotic-resistant superbugs and other bacteria. The material can be shrink-wrapped onto door handles, railings, and other surfaces
OGPBg TIL The Voynich Manuscript is an unsolved codex which is over 500 years old. WW2 codebreakers amongst others, have been unable to solve it. The entire document was posted online in 2020.
Egxv7 TIL that cousin marriage is more like "a norm" than a "taboo/exception" and only half of the US states ban it.
0LaM TIL of a pigeon, Cher Ami, that was awarded the Croix de Guerre for its service during WWI. Cher Ami delivered the S.O.S. message of a lost, encircled battalion despite being shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging only by a tendon.
jLxa TIL Scientists have actually succeeded in turning lead into gold, through Nuclear Transmutation.