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TIL Quine is a self-reproducing program, where it has no input, but its output is an exact copy of itself.

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VMeo8 TIL that actor Dorian Harewood (Eightball) in Full Metal Jacket asked for more money when Kubrick inevitably needed more time on the contract. Dorian asked for more money and Kubrick was furious and killed him off -- in the movie.
mjQv TIL: After batman and robin rescued it from a slaughterhouse, DC comics included a bat-cow
JGmv TIL a framed photo of a 4chan post sold for $90,900 on Ebay. The post read: “Art used to be something to cherish / Now literally anything could be art/This post is art”
Eg98V TIL that the oldest known impacted wisdom tooth belonged to a European woman who lived between 13,000 and 11,000 BCE. Molar impaction was a rare condition prior to the modern era: it became ten times more common after the introduction of soft, processed foods.
m1w0E TIL of Philae 436, likely the very last ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs to be carved.