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TIL 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY was made before the first color image of earth existed.

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e06Pg TIL In 2001, Tony Kirwan quit his job as an electrician and founded Destiny Rescue, a nonprofit dedicated to getting children out of sex slavery. Since 2011, the organization has rescued almost 2,000 children.
XEeRQ TIL Daniel Day-Lewis, on receiving his 2008 Oscar presented by Helen Mirren (who won an Oscar for playing the Queen,) said "That's the closest I'll come to ever getting a knighthood." He was knighted 6 years later.
BB5x TIL of a disease known as ‘Stone Man Syndrome", a connective tissue disorder where the sufferer’s damaged muscle is slowly replaced by bone.
6EkA8 TIL: while Austria derives its name from the Germanic for East, Australia gets its name from the latin for South
0w0Mp TIL Two-Thirds of Soviet Men Born in 1923 Didn’t Survive the War