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Today I learned: People in the 17th century actually believed in vampires

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Y7D6Z TIL I learned that the surveillance technology in the 1998 movie "Enemy of the State", which shows the NSA hunting Will Smith using live satellite feeds, didn't exist until a government research engineer saw the movie and kicked started the development of Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI).
VMmYm TIL a musician, Sivu, who did his entire music video in an MRI machine.
6EyDQ TIL there is a paleontologist named David Schwimmer, the same name as the actor who played paleontologist Ross Geller on Friends
6E9DZ TIL John F. Kennedy's brain was removed and stored in the National Archive after his autopsy. The brain was subsequently lost and remains missing to this day.
4kOGX TIL that strawberry boxes are called punnets, and that their inventor was an ancestor of the creator of the Punnet square