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TIL George Lucas came back from shooting Star Wars in England to find Industrial Light & Magic only had 3 of the 365 shots completed yet had spent half of their $2 million. He was hospitalized for hypertension and vowed to never direct another film

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em4k TIL that you might see an illusion or even a creepy monster if you stare at your reflection in a mirror long enough. This phenomenon, known as psychomanteum, dates back to Ancient Greece, where a person would gaze into a still pool of water to communicate with spirits.
16V1V TIL about Norman Cahners, 1936 Harvard class president, U.S. Track & Field Olympic Trials qualifier, inventor of the modern pallet, Navy Officer, and magazine publishing empire founder.
weD8 TIL that Pearson (a London textbook company) makes $90 million per year to make the state of Texas standardized test (this does not include profit from textbook sales). Every few years they change the contents of the test so that school are forced to buy new books for the new curriculum.
pYANp TIL it is possible to have temperatures below absolute zero, but they are actually hotter than any positive temperature
b9Z7Z TIL that the last person to be executed for blasphemy in Scotland was a 20-year-old man who called theology "a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense", and the Old Testaments "Ezra's fables", and that Christ "learned magic in Egypt, then performed pranks which were called miracles".