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TIL the richest independent film financier in the world is Steven Rales with a net worth of $11B. His most famous beneficiary is Wes Anderson. Rales began working with him on The Darjeeling Limited & has been a full-fledged producer on all of his major feature films since Moonrise Kingdom in 2012.

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1m6r TIL a time capsule was buried in Sir Frederick Banting Square, on the scientist’s 100th birthday, Nov. 14, 1991. Banting was part of a team that received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the isolation of insulin. The time capsule will be opened once a cure for diabetes has been found.
5VdDP TIL the piña colada's creation/origin is hotly contested and claimed by the restaurant Barrachina (in 1963) and the Caribe Hilton Hotel (in 1954), both located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. However, a cocktail book by a London Hotel included the drink. This book was published in 1930.
eVok TIL that there is a fluid that when super cooled becomes a superfluid which defies gravity and can leak through solid glass
mxOXP Today I learned that US universities protected students from the draft during the Vietnam war by awarding higher grades. It's believed that this kicked off grade inflation in the 60s.
p8NXb TIL The first purpose-built (and large-scale produced) drone was the product of Reginald Denny. He served with the British Royal Flying Corps during World War I, and after the war, in 1919, emigrated to the United States to seek his fortunes in Hollywood as an actor.