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TIL the scathing drunk review from "Citizen Kane" about Kane's wife is based on a real 1925 review of industrialist Samuel Insull's wife penned by the film's own screenwriter.

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9w79X TIL the idea of continental drift wasn't widely accepted in the scientific community until the 1960s. This is ~40 years after quantum mechanics was solidified in the 5th Solvay Conference (1927)!
QJAma TIL about Wizard Island, an island created from a volcanic eruption inside the lake of an older volcanic eruption's caldera
PYGOZ TIL Female urine was injected into frogs as a part of the first mainstream pregnancy tests.
XEJOP TIL of speed reader Kim Peek who could read a book in an hour by scanning the left page with his left eye then the right page with his right eye. He also had an exceptional memory, able to accurately recall the contents of 12,000 books.
5VgAn TIL that the prop money made for Rush Hour 2 was so realistic some crew members attempted to spend it. The money - which, if real, would be about $1 trillion - was then confiscated and destroyed by the FBI.