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TIL The Toy (1982) with Richard Pryor was a remake of Le jouet / The Toy (1976) with Pierre Richard

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QJMoE TIL that in 1975 a cat was credited as a co-author of a physics paper, after Jack Hetherington accidentally used articles such as "we" and "our" in a study on atomic behavior. Unwilling to change the errors, he simply added his cat as a co-author, under the name "F.D.C. Willard"
Yprlx TIL The first PC game mod was entitled “Castle Smurfenstein”; a parody mod in the early 80s for Castle Wolfenstein which replaced enemy Nazi soldiers with Smurfs
wog1E TIL that the longest place name in the world is in New Zealand and it has 85 letters. (“Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu”)
WxrB TIL that in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, not once do they travel by hot-air balloon. In fact, the text dismisses the idea as “highly risky and, in any case, impossible.”
mxOLo TIL MIT, often cited as one of the world’s most prestigious universities, puts almost all of its course materials online for anyone to access for free.