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TIL that Carl Sagan wrote Contact, later made into the movie featuring Jodie Foster.

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D1mv TIL the (hilarious comedy) “Airplane!” was a remake of the 1957 (totally serious) dramatic film “Zero Hour,” and contains many of the same exact lines and scenes.
GD4J TIL that Al Gore’s documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, was held by the British High Court to have nine errors in it, and cannot be shown in schools unless teachers point out the potentially problematic sections.
Mk18 Today I Learned that roughly 35 percent of homeless youths were kicked out of their homes for being Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, or Transgender
yQJVv TIL the Spanish word for junk mail is “la propaganda.”
ax10 TIL Tiger Woods, despite being worth $500 million dollars, once pulled a “mulligan” by taking back a $5 tip to a waitress after realizing he had tipped her earlier in the day. By the way, he was playing a $10,000 hand of blackjack at the time.