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TIL The green falling code in The Matrix is actually just loads of Sushi recipes! Simon Whiteley, the creator of the Matrix’s distinctive code, said that it all came from his wife’s Japanese cookbook

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LkgoZ TIL "Throwaway Living", a lifestyle of using single-use plastic items was promoted instead of cleaning up after. LIFE magazine (1955) - "The objects flying through the air would take 40 hours to clean, except that no housewife need bother. They are all meant to be thrown away after use."
7rQwO TIL of cardiac surgeon Michael DeBakey, who developed MASH hospitals and many new surgical techniques, including the first treatment for aortic dissection. In 2005, he suffered an aoertic dissection and his life was saved by the surgery he invented.
KYADJ TIL the tongue of a blue whale weighs as much as an elephant.
X0LDX TIL Spike Spiegel is a True Gentleman. He did not lay a single hand on his opponent (She). Furthermore, he acknowledges her strength by being on the defense and just breaking her guard at times by poking and transferring momentum with the broom. Genuinely such cool little detail I just noticed.
Yp6vA TIL Indian novelist Anita Desai was born to a German mother and a Bengali businessman during a period when it was still unusual for an Indian man to marry a European woman. She grew up speaking Hindi with her neighbours, and only German at her home