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TIL Dexter Holland of The Offspring published scientific findings in PLoS One in 2013

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m1x1y TIL there is a French movie advertised in 2015 called "100 Years" with the tagline "The Movie You Will Never See" because it won't be released until 2115.
9PVr TIL Will Smith turned down playing Neo(The Matrix) to make the wild wild west.
WkyA4 TIL That Men Who Receive Blood From Women That Have Been Pregnant Are More Likely To Have A Shorter Life Span
XEAX6 TIL about Gladys West, a black woman who was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame earlier this month for creating a precise mathematical model of the Earth in the 1980's that would be critical for the development of GPS technology.
N7E6N TIL that workers in Cuban cigar factories in the early 1900s employed 'lectores' to read to them while they worked. The reading materials were often literary or political, ranging from socialists newspapers to Shakespearean plays - sometimes leading to clashes with anti-communist factory owners.