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TIL of Pearl S. Buck (赛珍珠 - Sai Zhenzhu), Author and Activist that was the First American Woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and escaped death in the Nanking Incident of 1927

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R7A49 TIL "Peter The Great" was succeeded by his wife Catherine because he had his only son tortured to death
7rROX Today I learned of a phenomenon called Twin Films. Twin Films are films with the same, or very similar, plot produced or released at the same time by two different film studios. examples include, [Finding Nemo - Shark Tale], [Olympus has Fallen - White House down], [Churchill - Darkest Hour]
VMD80 TIL a 90s "Watchmen" movie almost happened where Sam Hamm (Batman) wrote, Joel Silver (Matrix) produced, Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) directed, Arnold Schwarzenegger played Dr. Manhattan, and David Bowie was Rorschach. And the ending would've had Manhattan use his powers to prevent his own creation.
dvP9 Today I learned that ‘sine’ is derived from an Arabic word for 'bosom’, thus making it the oldest mathematical boobies joke.
epa9b TIL that Japanese war crimes in China were so severe that Nazi officials unsuccessfully pleaded with Hitler to intervene.