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TIL Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Civil War, 28 days later) first claim to fame was a novel that got made into a film starring a young Leonardo DiCaprio.

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oR1gE TIL of Kenkanryu (Hatred of the Korean wave), an anti-Korean manga released in 2005 by a Japanese nationalist criticising controversial Korean-Japan issues including comfort women, Liancourt rocks etc. from a pro-Japan perspective
mxlAM TIL of a French man who despite having most of his brain eroded, lives a relatively normal, healthy life as a civil servant married with two children
Vywk TIL baseball player Gates Brown snuck hot dogs into the dugout during a game. Before he could eat them, he was called upon to pinch hit so he stuffed them into his jersey. He ended up having to slide into second base causing ketchup and mustard to smear all over his jersey leading to a $100 fine.
XEv4r TIL Bacteriophages are viruses that prey on bacteria and archaea, and some hope that phage therapy might one day be a useful alternate to antibiotics as antibiotic resistance becomes a bigger problem in treating deadly diseases
0wNKj TIL: Eclair translates to "flash of lightning" in French, because they are often eaten quickly