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til when herman li and sam totman before dragonforce they were a black metal band called demoniac

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a8Gk0 TIL that Jason Padgett, once a furniture salesman, became a mathematical savant after a brain injury in 2002. Following an assault, he began perceiving complex geometric patterns and fractals, a rare condition called acquired savant syndrome, which led him to create intricate math-based art.
d8aOZ TIL that the film Rocky was filmed in just 28 days for a budget of $960,000
QNDBe TIL that the Chinese mile is much shorter than the standard mile used everywhere else (esp. US and UK)
gnND TIL that the Nagasaki nuclear bomb was worth $25b (Today’s money). At 70k death toll, that’s one third of a million dollars per death.
nKxd TIL When Ronald Reagan watched Back to the Future for the first time, he loved the joke about who was president in 1985 (Ronald Reagan? The Actor?) so much that he made the theater projectionist stop the film, roll it back, and play the joke again.