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TIL there was a book published in Einstein’s lifetime entitled “100 Authors Against Einstein” of which Einstein retorted, “if I were wrong, then one would have been enough!”

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4XdZa TIL when Spider-Man film producer Avi Arad, was asked if Spider-Man would join the Avengers, Arad said “I think it will take a moment in which we’ve run out of ideas.” the next year Sony and Marvel announced that Spider-Man would join the MCU
Bro1y TIL the first ever piece of computer animation was the title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo
XElXj TIL Rüppell's vulture is considered to be the highest-flying bird, with confirmed evidence of a flight at an altitude of 11,300 m above sea level, when it collided with a plane.
b6ry7 TIL you have to pay to have your star on the walk of fame in Hollywood, $30,000 to be precise.
XEXvE TIL that during WW2, the Ukrainian and Polish partisans fought a bloody civil war concurrent with the German and Soviet invasions. Both sides committed heinous atrocities that killed tens of thousands of Polish and Ukrainian civilians.