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TIL that Leonard Nimoy directed “Three Men And A Baby”

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WJ9d TIL that Ancient Egyptians believed the universe was formed by the god Atum masturbating, and that the flow of the Nile was controlled by the frequency of which Atum masturbated.
L8o9 TIL of the Iron Front, a democratic paramilitary group that opposed the Nazis in the early 1930s, and who’s flag was designed to cross out the Swastika if superimposed on a Nazi flag.
R5RKa TIL : During the Blitz, the British military set up “Starfish towns” as decoys to draw bombers off real towns and military targets. They were bombed over 700 times, saving 2000+ lives.
djYr TIL The highest quality software ever written was the code for the space shuttle, with 1 error for every 420,000 lines of code.
LYm0 TIL the band Vulfpeck crowdfunded a free concert tour by uploading an album Sleepify to Spotify and asking their friends to play it on repeat while they slept. The album consisted only of 10 short silent tracks. Before Spotify removed the album the band had made the royalties amounting over $20,000.