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TIL 2017 was the first year the Doomsday Clock changed by seconds and not strictly minutes

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ReNa TIL there is a 12 story luxury paper store in Tokyo. On the 12th floor they serve salad grown on the 11th floor–which is an organic indoor farm.
RRZ4 TIL that Stan Lee didn’t use his given name (Stanley Lieber) for his comics, because he was saving it for when he wrote serious literature
VB1Z0 TIL that in 1983, a legal battle over the James Bond franchise resulted in two movies being released simultaneously in theaters: 'Never Say Never Again', starring Sean Connery, and 'Octopussy', starring Roger Moore.
PYr4e TIL that "zombies" first appeared on movie screens in a 1919 French film called J’accuse. Director Abel Gance used soldiers on leave from fighting in Verdun to portray “an army of the dead.”
grwny TIL the official name for a hashtag is "octothorpe".