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TIL "Cityspeak", the pidgin street language incorporating Japanese/Spanish/German/etc.. used in Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049 wasn't in Philip K. Dick's book, but was actually devised by "Gaff" actor Edward James Olmos while researching his character for the film.

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0mEy TIL that the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was so fast, the designers did not even consider evasive maneuvers; the pilot was simply instructed to accelerate. This could effectively elude any threat, including surface-to-air missiles.
50k TIL there are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Possible Chess Games.
oBkNA TIL about Lakshmi Tatma, an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs. Named after a Hindu goddess often depicted as four-armed, the girl became worshipped, and a circus offered to buy her. After a 27-hour surgery done by thirty surgeons, done for free, Lakshmi's extra limbs were removed.
4kPWo TIL the word "muscle" originates from the Latin word "musculus", which means "little mouse". The Romans thought the shape and movement of certain muscles, particularly the biceps, resembled mice. This word eventually made its way into Middle French and other Romance languages.
e0Y1b TIL that popcorn, being relatively inexpensive, became popular during the Great Depression. It became a source of income for many struggling farmers, including the Redenbacher family. In fact, when sugar was rationed during WWII, Americans ate three times as much popcorn as they had before.