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TIL, in Interstellar the depiction of a black hole required completely new CGI rendering software and was so accurate that it provided enough scientifical insight to publish three scientific papers

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E15DX TIL there was a massive lacrosse game between two tribes, Ojibwe vs Sauk, that was actually a ruse employed in order to capture a British fort in 1763
x6oaB TIL of the Hummingbird Hawk-Moth, a moth that bears remarkable resemblance to a hummingbird - even consuming nectar from the same type of flowers in the same manner. There is no genetic relationship between the two.
xP4g TIL Homefront, a video game released in early 2011, based on a war against a North Korean global power, has so far successfully predicted both the year of Kim Jong-Il’s death (2011) and North Korea’s nuclear test in 2013.
8aNJ4 TIL there was a natural nuclear reactor in present-day Gabon that produced about 100kw of energy 2 billion years ago, running for thousands of years. This is the only known example of naturally occurring nuclear fission.
WpM4 TIL that Tony Gonzalez saved a man’s life by colliding with him on the sidelines during a game