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TIL that Paul Thomas Anderson was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Inherent Vice

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NXOjQ TIL the linguistically closest relative to Malagasy, spoken in Madagascar, is Ma'anyan, spoked on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. It has been suggested the early Malagasy migrants moved away from Borneo in the 7th century AD, based on linguistic markets
QJxMk TIL Microplastics in Fresh Water Are Mostly Laundry Lint
R7BEw TIL about Philipp Mainländer a philosopher who theorised that God committed suicide and his decaying corpse is the living universe, and since God was an infinite being the only way he could kill himself was to shatter his timeless being into a time-bound and material universe.
6Ermm TIL that in Japan the cinema genre "Spaghetti Western" has been changed in "Macaroni Western" because in Japan spaghetti are conceptually "thin and meager", far from the iconic stories told in the movies.
EgErW TIL that Charles Best, who assisted Fredrick Banting in his discovery of insulin, was chosen as Banting's assistant by coin flip.