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TIL George Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the Directors’ Guild because they insisted on a traditional credit sequence for A New Hope and he wanted to start it with the now-iconic opening crawl.

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4Jg5 TIL the ZIKA virus was discovered in the Zika forest of Uganda in 1947 but only became a world health concern in 2007
Z8DkY TIL that in Michelangelo’s famous painting “The Creation of Adam”, there is an anatomically correct image of the human brain behind God, with his right arm extending to the prefrontal cortex, the most “human” part of the brain.
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