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TIL that in the U.S., there were animal abuse laws before child abuse laws.

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Oo9MY TIL that the only country in the world to lie in all four hemispheres is the island country of Kiribati
VBkYp TIL about the Scully effect, where women were inspired to take up STEM when they saw Scully on the X files; as a smart, skeptical woman and not a sidekick
veEj TIL Thor’s hammer was intended to have a much longer handle and be wielded two-handed. While it was being forged, Loki interrupted the dwarf manning the bellows, resulting in the hammer’s defect.
4XJew TIL that Dr. Strangelove was originally conceived as a drama about the nature of nuclear warfare, but as Kubrick was writing the screenplay, he felt many of the accurate depictions of nuclear warfare policy were too unbelievable for audiences to take seriously, and so it was turned into a comedy.
BQ5d TIL Duncan Jones’ “Moon” is the first film in a planned trilogy