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TIL Marlon Brando’s final film was a movie called “Big Bug Man”. The animated film, co-starring Brendan Fraser, still has not been released and likely never will be.

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OoOLR TIL Antarctica was originally called Australia, and Australia’s original name is New Holland
780lL TIL that in 2017, an AI developed by Facebook created its own language to negotiate and communicate more efficiently, using shorthand phrases humans couldn’t understand. Researchers had to shut it down because the AI diverged so far from English, it was no longer interpretable
JYwl1 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a speech in Milwaukee and refused to have medical treatment until he delivered his 90 minute speech, in which he showed off the bullet wound to the crowd
78LvX TIL that first photograph of Earth from outer space is 78 years old. It was taken by V-2 No. 13, a modified nazi ballistic missile. The V stands for Vergeltungswaffe which means Vengeance Weapon.
DwgY TIL there are fake Harry Potter books written and distributed in China, masquerading as additional works of J.K. Rowling. They shamelessly rip off other authors’ work in tandem with hers, with amazing titles like “Harry Potter and the Leopard Walk-Up-To Dragon” and “Harry Potter and the Big Funnel.”