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TIL I learned that the surveillance technology in the 1998 movie "Enemy of the State", which shows the NSA hunting Will Smith using live satellite feeds, didn't exist until a government research engineer saw the movie and kicked started the development of Wide Area Motion Imagery (WAMI).

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4YR6 TIL a man died after he accidentally injected himself with cow antibiotics. Poison Control: “there is no antidote”.
opRE TIL that North Korea has more submarines than the United States.
8eA48 TIL that Irving Berlin is the only Academy Award winner in history who presented the award to themselves. He won for writing ‘White Christmas’, and declared that opening the envelope was extremely awkward. The rules were then changed to prevent this ever happening again.
KY6vR TIL that the regional hospital in Sundsvall, Sweden, is cooled year-round with stored snow from the winter months, reducing energy consumption for cooling by over 90%
J11JV TIL that skunks are immune to snake venom and will eat venomous snakes. Skunks are one of the only animals who have this immunity and are unaffected by doses of venom 100 times higher than those that could kill a household pet.