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TIL that the soundtrack for the animated movie ‘Akira’ was composed before it was animated. The animation crew created scenes in time with the music, rather than the other way around.

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4kMWR TIL of a Black cat-eating festival in Peru "rooted in culinary pragmatism when slaves lived on cotton plantations and had little else to eat." - Reuters (2001)
9lPm TIL that if you have pink eye, a few drops of fresh breast milk can cure it almost instantly.
Jexj TIL there’s a whole conspiracy theory about NASA hiding a “second sun”
e0We5 TIL about the Fermi Paradox, a concept from the 1950s named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, that highlights the apparent disparity between estimates of intelligent life on other planets and a conspicuous lack of such evidence thus far in our exploration.
1a0aW TIL the attempted escape from Alcatraz on May 4, 1946 was inadvertently foiled for two reasons: the six convicts unknowingly jammed the door with several wrong keys and a prison guard previously held the right key (against prison regulations). This led to the Battle of Alcatraz that cost five lives.