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

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8eVDZ TIL that the 1900 Paris Exposition featured moving sidewalks, early “talking films” synced to phonographs, escalators, and the first passenger trolleybus - giving a glimpse of modern transport and cinema decades before any of this became mainstream.
4XNJ5 TIL that science has a need for more postmortem brains to study. Being an organ donor does not include the brain, so you must sign up separately in order to donate your brain for research.
P1lNV TIL there are “rabies free” countries.
yVdop TIL About 'Eden' a reality show that aired for about a month on the UK's Channel 4. Cancelled after only a few episodes the show continued 'filming' for almost a year without telling the dwindling contestants the show had actually been cancelled.
E1A10 TIL Gold's yellow color and inertness are explained by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Gold's electrons travel so close to the speed of light that relativity contracts some of their orbits. This shrinks an energy gap so it absorbs blue light, and makes the outer electron less reactive.