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TIL that CGI rendering software, used to model gravitational lensing around black holes and wormholes, in the film ‘Interstellar’ was so accurate it’s creation produced three scientific papers and are likely the best visualizations of said effects ever created.

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8pPb TIL 11 of the 12 men who have walked on the moon were Boy Scouts.
b9blN TIL the biomass of domesticated poultry is about three times higher than that of wild birds.
XD4P TIL Bill W, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took LSD after being sober for decades and “developed a plan to have LSD distributed at all AA meetings nationwide”
Xg0E TIL that in 1950 a church in Beatrice, Nebraska exploded five minutes after choir practice was supposed to start but no one was hurt because every single member of the choir was late for entirely different reasons. And my grandmother was one of them.
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