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TIL The only Oscar won by "2001 A space Odyssey" was for special visual effects. Awarded to Stanley Kubrick it was his sole win from 13 nominations. The technicians involved felt it wrong for him to receive the sole credit. Following this controversy, the Academy changed its eligibility rule

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D19oj TIL the Seattle windshield pitting epidemic of 1954 was the result of mass delusion. When the media called attention to it people actually looked at their windshields and saw damage they had never noticed before.
5VOKp TIL about Henry Cotton, an asylum director who believed that all insanity was caused by sepsis in other parts poisoning the brain, leading to widespread amputation of his patients' colons, teeth, reproductive organs, and even stomachs in order to "cure" them, with as many as 45% dying as a result
0wMEL TIL that the bite of the Brazilian Wandering Spider can cause priapism (a long lasting and often painful erection) in men.
odbR TIL that the first indian nuclear test were so secretive that even the indian defence minister was told about it after the test were conducted
woYkE TIL that the fundamentals of modern computer programming were conceived by six women who worked on the first digital computer, ENIAC, in the 1940s. The techniques they created are still used widely today, but the women were not recognised for their work for decades.