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TIL The code from the Matrix is actually a sushi recipe the production designer, Simon Whiteley, scanned from one of his wife's Japanese cookbooks.

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rRdbd TIL the subtle scar on Tina Fey's face is a result of a stranger slashing her, while she was playing in her front yard, when she was 5 years old
ep8Bg TIL in 2002, a player managed to answers correctly all questions on the Thai version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire thanks to an error: The cable feeding her the answers on the computer screen was supposed to be hooked up to the host's computer. She "won" the grand prize then later got revoked.
dDXWj TIL that the oldest and most exclusive Gentlemen's Club in London was founded in 1693 and is literally called "White's"
OGloL TIL Victor Hayes role in establishing and chairing the IEEE 802.11 Standards Working Group for Wireless Local Area Networks from its inception in 1990 to 2000 has led to him being nicknamed as the "Father of Wi-Fi".
b9Lp TIL the Soviet Tu4 was a reversed-engineered copy of the US B29 bomber. Copied to such detail that every Tu4 had a rivet hole in one wing exactly where an unknown Boeing engineer mistakenly drilled it in the B29 used as a template.