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TIL: There is an area of the universe a billion light years across that has virtually nothing in it, not even dark matter.

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d0yj TIL the sexual imagery in Alien film was intentional, screenwriter Bannon had said about it, “I’m going to attack the men in the audience sexually. I am going to put in every image I can think of to make them cross their legs. Homosexual oral rape, birth. The thing lays its eggs down your throat.”
4kyag TIL Q Lazzarus, singer of Goodbye Horses, was unknown when the song appeared in Silence of the Lambs. Labels had rejected her due to her dreads, so she drove a cab. Once, she picked up "Lambs" director Jonathan Demme, and played him her demo. He responded "Oh my God, what is this and who are you?"
VMr48 TIL Karl Marx was born into a well-to-do family, the son of a lawyer, he went to the Universities of Bonn and Berlin. He married Jenny von Westphalen, who was part of the Prussian aristocracy and German nobility.
Bgb0L TIL about Gil Cisneros, a congressman from California who began his political career in 2018. He first gained national attention in 2010 by winning a $266 million lottery weeks after being laid off from his job and using that money to establish scholarships for Latino students.
R54Pa TIL that what most people think of as Haiku are actually another art form called Senryu, which follows the same 5-7-5 syllable structure as Haiku. While Senryu can be about any topic and are often humorous, Haiku should be more serious, be about nature and contain a word that refers to the Seasons.