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TIL It took over 100 for someone to notice that an Icelandic translation of Dracula published in 1901 was actually a near complete re-write of the novel and not an actual translation of the original work

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M7PRW TIL: A scientific study at Cambridge found that sheep were smart enough to recognize human faces from a photo. However, their performance dropped when the picture is tilted. To conduct the study, scientists have them treats to identify photographs. They used photos of Emma Watson.
oBKXY TIL On September 11,2001 Astronaut Frank Culbertson was the only American not on earth that day, he was 250 miles above at the International Space Station and this is the photo he took Of NYC. He said he didn't know what was going on but he knew it was bad because he could see the smoke from space.
OMkX TIL A Soviet probe, “Luna 15”, crashed into the surface of the moon while Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were still on it.
xVlBB TIL the original Iron Man movie was mostly improvised. Co-star Jeff Bridges claims that Downey Jr and director Jeff Favreau would ad-lib each day's scenes, using a general outline for a script
OoWye TIL that Stephen King published his novel Under the Dome in 2009, just a few years after an episode of The Simpsons with a similar dome-related plot was aired. King described himself as “gobsmacked,” as he hadn’t realized he had been beaten to the punch.