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TIL the word ‘Matrix’ is Latin for 'womb’
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TIL It is the year 5780, according to Judaism
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TIL WTF happened to the US economy in 1971 with the suspension of the Bretton Woods Gold standard for money.
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TIL about the Charter of the Forest of 1217, an English charter which re-established for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by King William the Conqueror and his heirs. It remained in force for 754 years, being superseded only in 1971
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TIL DC Comic's Watchmen was originally intended to use existing heroes from a company DC had just purchased. DC liked the proposal for the Watchmen but didn't want their new characters killed or made into villains. The Watchmen creative team reworked the Charlton heroes into similar substitutes.
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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.