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TIL during the premiere of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ 241 people walked out of the theater demanding to know what the film was about. Creator Arthur C. Clarke once said, “If you understand ‘2001’ completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered.”

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