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TIL that after the filming of "2001 a Space Odyssey", director Stanley Kubrick destroyed nearly all of the film's props so that they wouldn't be used for "lesser" science-fiction films in the future.

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9Ye4D TIL, when Maxim Gorky arrived in the US in 1906, he initially received a warm welcome. President Roosevelt, Mark Twain et al. planned to meet him. But when it was reported that Gorky was accompanied not by his wife, but by his mistress, his hotel threw him out and he got cancelled.
yGJw TIL there is a drug, ibogaine, that after one dose eliminates the craving for heroin, cocaine and alcohol
M7QNb TIL that "Los Gatos," California ("The Cats") is named for the large numbers of mountain lions and bobcats in the area. There are still large numbers of lions in the area today.
1akoO TIL the first known appearance of the phrase "Taco Tuesday" is in the October 16, 1933, edition of the El Paso Herald-Post, in an advertisement for the White Star Cafeteria at the St. Regis Hotel.
wLEpP TIL in the 1820s a Cherokee named Sequoyah, impressed by European written languages, invented a writing system with 85 characters that was considered superior to the English alphabet. The Cherokee syllabary could be learned in a few weeks and by 1825 the majority of Cherokees could read and write.