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TIL Karen was the most popular name for girls in California in the early 1960s

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PVJe TIL Shortly before his death Stanley Kubrick had all the outtakes and deleted scenes from his films destroyed. Burning “thousands of cans” of film so that no one could re-edit his movies.
oRP0r Til that Sir Sean Connery last movie was a 2012 animated film called “Sir Billi”. About a retired veterinarian (Sir Sean Connery) living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he’s a dog, an Admiral who’s afraid of the water, and a beaver who was raised by rabbits.
vPKgR TIL of a man in Iraq who hired an online agent to buy a lotto ticket for him in Oregon, and won 6.4 million.
6EMd8 Hong Kong-based students, Sum Ming Wong and Kin Pong Li designed a door handle that uses light to always keep itself sterilized. The students were inspired by the SARS outbreak in the 2000s and figured that a self-sanitizing door handle is more effective than the chemical-based cleaning processes we are using right now. The handle is made of a glass tube with aluminum caps at each end and the entire handle is covered in a powdered photocatalytic coating made from a mineral called titanium dioxide. The bacteria is decomposed through a chemical reaction that is activated by UV light reacting with the thin coating on the glass tube.
vPMGj TIL that during the height of the French Revolution, Notre Dame was rededicated to serve as a Temple of Reason in the course of Catholicism being banned in France.