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TIL the crew of Christopher Nolan's TENET saved a man from committing suicide.

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By TIL that Saddam Hussein had a daughter named Hala of whom no photographs or records exist, and that her current whereabouts are unknown.
VB7p8 TIL: Muzak continued to play at the plaza between the World Trade Center towers as they burned on 9/11. It didn't stop until the South Tower collapsed.
P69J TIL Keurig coffeemaker co-inventor John Sylvan went to the ER reporting tunnel vision and heart palpitations. After a few tests the doctors had no clue so they asked questions like “how much coffee do you drink?” To which John replied “30 or 40 cups a day.” The diagnosis was caffeine poisoning.
EgE80 TIL the special effect in sci-fi movies of a 2D ring of energy or matter emanating from an explosion is called the 'Praxis Effect', named after the visual effect of the explosion of the planet Praxis in Star Trek VI. Other uses include the seismic charges in Star Wars Attack of the Clones.
Brxer TIL of Hind al-Husseini, a Palestinian woman who rescued 55 orphaned survivors of the Deir Yassin massacre. She converted her grandfather's mansion into an orphanage to house them, which became a school providing education to orphans and other children from Palestinian towns and villages.