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TIL Earth's oldest land ecosystem was spotted in South African rock cores

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4pNR TIL Google provides the number for the Suicide Prevention Hotline when presented with the search terms “i want to die”
ANmZw TIL Anthony Bourdain called “Ratatouille” “simply the best food movie ever made.” This was due to details like the burns on cooks’ arms, accurate to working in restaurants. He said they got it “right” and understood movie making. He got a Thank You credit in the film for notes he provided early on.
XEy5j TIL when Jerry Lewis taught film directing at USC in the late ‘60s, George Lucas was one of his students and Steven Spielberg audited some of his classes. Lewis later screened Spielberg's short film Amblin' (1968) and told his students, "That's what filmmaking is all about."
Ajnw TIL Third world country only means a country that was not allied with the US (first world) or allied with Russia (second world) during the cold war.
wR7 TIL that US presidents must pay for food in The White House