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TIL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book) is 42 years old today

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gMRQ7 TIL Airbrush illustrations require you to cut out little pieces of film, or "frisket", with an X-acto knife and put them back for every area you want to color. I now appreciate Photoshop that much more.
ygv8 TIL that “The Legend of Bagger Vance”, a movie about a golf game, is actually a modern-day rendition of the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient sacred Hindu text.
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