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TIL Celine Song (director of "The Materialists" and "Past Lives") adapted the play "The Seagull" in The Sims 4 and streamed it on Twitch for the New York Theater Workshop

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QNWLM TIL In the UK, the distinction between an actor and an extra is defined by agreements between the actors trade unions and the various commercial production bodies. These state that once a performer says 13 or more words in any scene, they must become a contracted actor in that production.
Y7BWZ TIL the number of people who identify as Native American on the US Census increased by 86% from 2010 to 2020.
5Yv5r TIL that the first new US Quarter of 2020 features a bat on the back
KYV6B Today I learned that sound can be minus decibels. The quietest place on Earth is Microsoft’s anechoic chamber in Redmond, WA, USA, at -20.6 decibels. These anechoic chambers are built out of heavy concrete and brick and are mounted on springs to stop vibrations from getting in through the floor.
GAx4E TIL that France's deadliest day in WWI was August 22, 1914. Following a series of reckless offensive charges, 27,000 French soldiers were killed in less than 24hrs. This figure is more than any other day in French history, and is half as many as all U.S. soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War