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Yg7r TIL that Game of Thrones is filmed in the same studio the Titanic was built in, not the movie but the actual RMS Titanic.
rKBM TIL that since 1985 the Saudi government has ordered the destruction of 95% of Mecca’s historic buildings, most over a 1000 years old. It’s estimated that there now fewer than 20 buildings left from the time of Muhammad.
MeNMV TIL Jeff Goldblum can play piano and has a prolific jazz career
kjjm TIL in 2012 Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki presented a proof for the “abc conjucture” - one of the most important, unsolved problems in math. However the proof is so difficult and abstract, that not even his peers get the gist of it. To this day it is still unconfirmed.
pYJ18 TIL the U.S. government is worried about generative AI being used to create new viruses