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TIL two weeks after Hurricane Katrina, a task force rescued around 1400 frozen embryos stranded in a hospital without power. The embryos were considered to be people under Louisiana law.

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4Y6o TIL that the Wachowskis asked Warner Bros. for $80 million to make The Matrix but only got $10 million approved, so they decided to spend all of that money on the opening sequence. They showed it to the Warner executives who were so impressed that they gave them their original budget.
jNrWp TIL Due to work to protect the Leaning tower of Pisa, The structure has started to lean less and straighten out.
5YYgr TIL That Sir William osler was a renowned practical joker and the greatest ever diagnostician to yeild a stethoscope
Wee9 TIL Harvey Weinstein insisted on cuts to a film and when the director refused, reduced the release to only 8 theaters nationwide. The film went on to 95% Fresh rating and dozens of critics’ annual top 10 lists. The film: “Snowpiercer”
78Vbx TIL that every local field is isomorphic to R, C , a finite extension of Q_p , or a finite extension of the field of Laurent series over F_p