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TIL Stanley Kubrick, when told that Schindler’s List was a good representation of the Holocaust, replied “Think that’s about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about 6 million people who get killed. Schindler’s List is about 600 who don’t.”

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7dgX TIL Biologists at Osaka University in Japan have discovered a new way to grow the many separate tissues that make up the human eyeball, including retinas, corneas, the eye’s lens, using stem cells extracted from a small sample of adult skin
ZBRo TIL Jonah Hill had to be hospitalized while filming Wolf of Wall Street because he snorted so much fake cocaine.
VBlDD TIL: Tua Tagovailoa (Starting Dolphins QB who throws left) is actually right handed
KX1G TIL that the longest Wikipedia article is the list of advanced 2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons monsters.
1aEd TIL In 1945 Frank Sinatra cancelled a $10,000 gig and traveled to Gary, Indiana to convince white high school students striking against integration to return to school. Sinatra called it “the most shameful incident in the history of American education.”