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TIL that because The Flash (2023) was shooting during Covid restrictions instead of shooting scenes in an American neighborhood, they instead built houses from scratch on a plot of land in the UK and then had to tear them down after filming

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BrjK TIL that Google Earth was originally called Earth Viewer and was created by Keyhole, Inc., a company who were partially funded by the CIA via venture capital firm In-Q-Tel that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the CIA equipped with the latest in information technology.
aAKN TIL: There is a method being tested to allow female same-sex couples to have children that are 100% biologically “theirs”.
gr0e8 TIL in the men's outdoor pole vault, the top 8 all-time performances are all by Armand Duplantis, and the top 24 performances are shared by Duplantis and Sergey Bubka—seventeen of those by Duplantis and seven by Bubka.
EwoV TIL Freddie Mercury spent his last months recording as many vocals as he could for the rest of Queen to finish after his death
xRQB TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup, Benfica coach Béla Guttmann asked for a pay rise. When denied, he allegedly cursed the club and said: “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached EIGHT European Cup finals and lost all of them.