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R5vxw TIL that the oldest known living land animal is Jonathan, a tortoise estimated to have hatched no later than 1832.
OGODa TIL about Victor Jara: an artist and activist who supported the Socialist Chilean government. After the coup in 1973, Jara was imprisoned by Pinochet’s regime. He was tortured and shot over 40 times, before his body was put on display for other prisoners.
R5jwl TIL Apocalypse Now began script prep in the late 1960s. In 1976, four months into filming, Coppola still hadn’t finished the script and kept delaying Brando’s access to it. He wrote to Brando, asking him to join on set to collaborate on a slow rewrite. Brando and Coppola spent 10 days reshaping it.
roRy TIL while 1500 people died on the Titanic, it isn’t the worst maritime disaster in history. Almost 10 thousand people died when a German military transport ship was sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945
yQEgp TIL that Caesar’s last words to Brutus (‘Kai su, teknon’, literally ‘You too, child’) may have been intended along the lines of ‘See you in hell, punk’, rather than as an expression of shock at being stabbed by one he had treated like a son, because the words ‘kai su’ often appear on curse tablets.