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TIL that the Baby Boomers were nicknamed the “Me Generation” due to their perceived narcissism.

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M7ogK TIL in the eighties in Japan there was a story-writing contest open to the public for a new Godzilla movie. It was won by a dentist and his story was made into the 1989 film 'Godzilla vs. Biollante'
RE0a TIL Christopher Walken doesn’t have a computer or a cell phone, and doesn’t drive in traffic because it makes him nervous.
rNXP1 TIL that the seedless bananas that we consume are called Cavendish bananas and they will go extinct in the next decade due to a fungus called Panama disease.
jp5X TIL That scientists have discovered how to temporarily induce Rain-Man like skills in normal people by stimulating parts of the brain with magnetic pulses.
xX1D TIL that 2 years after Titanic sank, the Empress Of Ireland sank in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and lost 68.5% of all passengers (.5% more than Titanic!). The event was buried in the papers because of WWI.