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TIL Director Akira Kurosawa was so impressed with The Magnificent Seven, the American adaptation of his own film, Seven Samurai, that he presented director John Sturges with a sword

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a8Nmo TIL that in recent years, dozens of North Korean "ghost ships," often with deceased crew members onboard, have washed up along the Japanese coast.
r8Re TIL An Israeli team of researchers invented a breathalyzer that can detect 17 different diseases, including two types of Parkinson’s, Crohn’s, multiple sclerosis, kidney disease, and cancers including lung cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancer.
neowG TIL: Pringles are not truly a potato chip but a "potato crisp" as they are made from a dough and fried. The can was developed by a engineer who wrote Fantasy Fiction and used a super computer to assure the shape and size of the can for minimum breakage on movement.
QN8bd TIL: Kobe Bryant is mostly responsible for the fall of high top basketball sneakers. Raised in Italy, Kobe noticed that soccer players play in a fairly similar way to basketball player. Kobe told Nike point-blank, 'I want the lowest, lightest-weight basketball shoe ever’.
4woJ TIL Transgender women are 49 times more likely to have HIV than the general population