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TIL Released in 1932, White Zombie is considered the first feature length zombie film. Reviewers were generally negative.

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NWPJ TIL Iceland is the only NATO country with no standing army.
VMlEQ TIL that Leonardo da Vinci never had a last name because he was born out of wedlock, thus leading to his “last name” being da Vinci (of Vinci) because the town he was born in was called Vinci.
J177l TIL about Tiangong (“Sky Palace”), a permanently crewed Chinese space station. It operates in low Earth orbit between 210 and 280 miles above the surface. Launched on 29 April 2021, it's been manned by a crew of 3 to 6 astronauts since 5 June 2022.
VKdp TIL that there are estimated to be 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual ants alive on Earth at any given time, with their biomass outweighing all humans and marine fish combined
e0EwE TIL microwave ovens do not cook food from the "inside out." When thick foods are cooked, the outer layers are heated and cooked primarily by microwaves while the inside is cooked mainly by the conduction of heat from the hot outer layers.