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TIL that while filming Armageddon, Ben Affleck asked director Michael Bay, why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and was told to shut the fuck up.

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6EZk7 TIL that in 1931, Gödel, a 25 year old mathematician, showed that there is a gaping hole at the bottom of mathematics. Simply put, there are things that are true that mathematics can never prove to be true.
N7vWE TIL about the Cagots, a highly persecuted minority on the French-Spanish border, who were the same ethnicity and religion as their persecutors.
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