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TIL - Michael Schumacher donated $10m in aid after the Indian Ocean Tsunami. This surpassed the amount given by any other individual, sports team/league, corporation, and even some countries. Schumacher's bodyguard Burkhard Cramer, and Cramer's two sons, were killed in the tsunami.

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DGDe TIL in 2009 a Hungarian art historian, while watching the movie Stuart Little with his daughter, spotted a long-lost avant-garde painting in the background. The painting was bought by a set designer in a Pasadena antiques shop for “next to nothing”, and later sold for $285,700 at an auction.
pjMG TIL that the French praised ‘Ratatouille’ for perfectly recreating the environment of a restaurant kitchen. One chef said, “When Colette teaches the young cook how you cut onions, how you cook vegetables in a pan, how you season everything — that’s it, that’s how we do it!”
kZpm TIL that when a woman asked Leonard Nimoy “Are you aware that you [as Spock] are the source of erotic dream material for thousands and thousands of ladies around the world?”, he replied “May all your dreams come true”.
ANLDw TIL in 2020, it was announced that AlphaFold, a neural network based on DeepMind AI, can predict a protein's final shape based solely on its amino-acid chain with an accuracy of 90%. Predicting the structure of a polypeptide from its sequence is considered of the greatest challenges in biology.
vMWx TIL 40,000 people in Iran rely on a 45km long “qanat” (underground aqueduct) built nearly 3000 years ago