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rgPe TIL the DC supervillain Brainiac was not named after the slang term for “an intellectual”. It was the other way around; the term originated with the supervillain’s name.
4Z7R TIL Uma Thurman’s movie “Motherhood” is one of the biggest flops in UK history, only earning £88 on its opening weekend. Only one person saw it on Sunday
1Z0r TIL at least 310 schools in the U.S. are receiving tens of millions of dollars in public funding through school voucher programs to teach creationism.
Nro1 TIL the three actors that played the Marlboro Man all died of lung cancer
KYWxa TIL that the inventor of lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine. Egas Moniz was also a duelist, medical school dean, member of parliament, ambassador and foreign minister. Once he was shot by a patient but survived. Moniz also authored many books, even one on the history of playing cards.