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TIL Sony Pictures failed to adapt Michael Lewis' best-selling book Flash Boys into a movie because of their apprehension with having an Asian lead actor, as revealed in private emails leaked in the 2014 Sony Pictures hack.

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R5b94 TIL that the 1918 Flu was definitively connected to Influenza virus using a remarkably preserved body in Alaska, that still had remnants of Flu RNA which was sequenced and recreated.
E1aPw TIL that Irish author James Joyce was very into farting during sex. When in Italy, he sent a number of extremely explicit letters to his wife Nora, where he detailed almost every act you could think of. He mentioned farting a lot.
yyEM TIL that the first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan war were from an American pilot bombing a training exercise.
YpEkB TIL The health benefits of drinking hot water.
YpKLv TIL a nurse who cares for the terminally ill shared her observations in a book called, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying. The top 5 are: courage to live a life true to myself, not working so hard, courage to express my feelings, staying in touch with my friends, letting myself be happy.