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TIL Science fiction author Orson Scott Card called Serenity “the best science fiction film ever”, further stating “If Ender’s Game can’t be this kind of movie, and this good a movie, then I want it never to be made. I’d rather just watch Serenity again.”

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aLyb TIL after he was KIA during the Korean War, Sgt. John Rice, a Native American, was refused burial at a Sioux City cemetery because of his heritage. Hearing the news, President Truman ordered him buried at Arlington with full military honors between two generals
d8oPE TIL that the middle finger was used as an insult since ancient times. It was supposed to be an erect penis and represents a sexual threat, giving a whole new meaning to “Fuck you”.
epjaL TIL a 1978 study had students approach strangers & ask to have sex. 75% of men said yes; zero women did. But a 2015 study made sure its participants believed they could accept offers of sex without fear of what might happen to them; it found when society isn’t judging, women's sex drive rivals men's
B9ED TIL Stan Lee planned on quitting the comic book industry, until his wife Joan told him to write the type of characters he wanted to for his last project. The result was the Fantastic Four, which created a more humanly flawed type of superhero.
4X6gN TIL of Wisdom—the world’s oldest albatross who reunited with the man who first tagged her in 1956. Having spent 40 years apart, Chandler Robbins picked her up by chance among a colony of more than 250,000 nests and discovered she’d also become the oldest albatross to ever give birth to a chick.