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TIL the director of the film adaptation of The Time Machine (2002) was H.G. Wells' great-grandson. He was also a consultant for the future scenes in Back to the Future II.

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wL0P8 TIL British abstract artist & architect Victor Pasmore designed the brutalist Apollo Pavilion for the Sunny Blunts housing estate. It became heavily vandalised & was so hated by the residents that they campaigned & nearly succeeded in having it demolished. It is now protected as a listed monument.
QNr9X TIL about the oddly-named "Doomsday Rule" which can (with practice) be used to calculate the weekday of a target date based on the fact that certain days (4/4, 5/9, 6/6...) in any given year all fall on the same day of the week.
grMdA TIL about the Gibson Nine, an Australian aboriginal family who were still living a traditional nomadic lifestyle in the outback until 1984, when they settled in a town. The children have gone on to have successful careers as painters, although one of them later returned to the desert.
bAdj TIL in 2009 CD Singles sales ‘officially’ died when Florence and the Machine charted at number 16 in the UK after selling a whopping 64 physical copies of their single
Y7X47 TIL: Since 1963, the Japanese receive a commemorative silver sake cup on becoming a 100 years old. Due to increasing numbers of citizens reaching a 100, the cup size was shrunk and the solid silver was replaced with a silver-plated nickel alloy saving the Japanese government $1 million annually.