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TIL the most attended professional wrestling event ever is "Collision in Korea" held in Pyongyang, North Korea by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). After acquiring WCW, the WWE has not acknowledged or released the event on streaming services.

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yQEW8 TIL there was an official writer's guide for the original Star Trek series. The pages included story advice, character attributes ("Captain Kirk is a space-age Horatio Hornblower"), costuming ("no pockets or space suits"), Stardate calculation, and told writers to contact NASA for technical advice.
E1wXw TIL that Chadwick Boseman wrote a play in 2005 called Deep Azure. It was written in lyrical verse and focused on a young black woman dealing with an eating disorder in the wake of her fiance's death. Boseman turned it into a screenplay in 2008, and wanted to eventually direct it.
VBlpD TIL that "Econophysics" is research field in Economics which models crises the way physicists model transitions of matter from fluid to solid state
Gd1j TIL referring to the Netherlands as “Holland” is seen as insulting by many Dutch people, as it’s actually just the name one of the provinces.
jGOj TIL that Facebook punked tech crunch by implementing a functioning “Fax This Photo” button just visible to TC.