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TIL that Nosebleed, a movie (starring Jackie Chan) about a window washer at the World Trade Centre who stops a terrorist attack, had to be cancelled when the attacks happened in the real world.

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eoW6 TIL that during the Cold War the CIA considered dropping dropping enormous condoms labeled “medium” over the Soviet Union to demoralize the Soviet male population.
wDmM TIL saying the same word over and over until it loses it’s meaning is a real thing called semantic satiation
NXLvE TIL about pleasure marriage in Indonesia
Xwx8 TIL that this is the oldest known photograph of a human being in existence. This is a busy street and there was tons of traffic, but since the exposure was so long, about 15-20 minutes, none of the moving figures can be seen. Only one man shows up.
9wYRp TIL about the Degenerate Era, where the stars in our universe will run out of fuel, and the starry night sky we see today will no longer exist. Aging stars and stellar remnants will be too cold to support life. It's hypothesized to happen about 1 quintillion years after the Big Bang.