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TIL of "Aptronyms", where your name peculiarly matches your life - like Sarah Blizzard (meteorologist) or Lance Bass (bass player).

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nnAr TIL The majority of creepy metallic noises in sci-fi or horror movies are made by an instrument called a Waterphone.
nkYP TIL “The needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few” has no classical history. It was first spoken by Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
4WYw TIL that Night of the Living Dead was entered into the public domain because the original distributor forgot to place a copyright notification in the film.
ebnD TIL Charlton Heston narrated for highly classified military and Department of Energy instructional films, particularly relating to nuclear weapons. For six years, he held the nation’s highest security clearance.
0wnB1 TIL Alexander Selkirk, the bases for Robinson Crusoe survived 4 years on an island where nightly he was attacked by rats but solved this by domesticating feral cats. One day he fell off a cliff hunting goats and landed on his prey, sparing him a broken back.