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TIL all roles in the "Alien" movie script were written as "unisex", with genders to be determined during casting; Ripley was initially considered to be a man

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6a7Y TIL North Korea built a fake village with empty buildings lit by automatic timers in an effort to lure South Koreans to defect across the border.
Yp8AB TIL After pressure from customers, Starbucks blocked customers from watching porn in stores using their Wi-Fi.
kj7d TIL Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to visit friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”
eLWg TIL up to 95% of the historic structures in the city of Mecca have been demolished over the last three decades. Many of the sites were over 1000 years old and many were connected to the life and times of the prophet Muhammad and his companions.
Z87R TIL The “XXX” that you see on the sides of moonshine signifies how many times the batch had been run through the still.