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TIL in order to capture a genuine look of surprise on Hans Gruber’s face, Alan Rickman was dropped one second early at the end of Die Hard.

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VMQ9D TIL Archaeologists found 2,800 year old ceramic sippy cups with cute animal motifs, containing traces of livestock milk, which suggests infants back then were drinking it. The dates correspond to a baby boom at that time, suggesting that sippy cups were an important innovation for humanity.
6EEEl TIL that Carl Haber created a machine that can read the surface of very old audio recordings and reproduce them without anything having to touch them; using the same type of technology that was used to see the Higgs boson particle.
grn7b TIL that Kendrick Lamar On April 16, 2018, won the Pulitzer prize. He was the first and only rapper till today to do this.
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