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TIL a man ate an entire airplane over the course of two years

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mxYkM TIL Andy Whitfield filmed the entirety of his lead role in “Spartacus” while battling Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. His struggle was documented in an Oscar-nominated documentary called “Be Here Now,” which served raise awareness for people suffering from leukemia and lymphoma.
P1VEG TIL Ulysses Grant wrote his memoir while he was bankrupt and terminally ill. Mark Twain developed marketing strategy including Union veterans selling books in uniform. Eventually it became one of the bestselling books of the century.
l78r1 TIL The Assyrians had basic lens technology. One of their creations, the Nimrud lens, dates to 710 BCE, though its purpose is debated. Lenses could have been used to start fires, as decoration, or astronomy tools (with references to the snakes of saturn being the rings or mythology)
dDJkr TIL that Kenneth Lonergan, Oscar winning screenwriter on Manchester by the Sea and Gangs of New York, wrote the screenplay for The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
NXk4Q TIL that Charles Thacker, designer of the 1973 Xerox Alto (the first computer with a graphical interface and mouse), also worked on early tablet concepts decades before Apple. When the iPad succeeded in 2010, his wife quipped, “Well, dear, you were 10 years ahead of your time again.”