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TIL that Alan Moore, the creator of 'Watchmen', considers modern superhero movies a "blight" to cinema and "also to culture to a degree", and that the popularization of the genre on the part of adults is an "infantilization"

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JYvKm TIL about the Gordian Knot, a supposedly impossible knot to untie. An oracle declared that whomever opened the knot would become ruler of all Asia. Alexander the Great, unsuccessful at loosening the knot, simply sliced it in half with his sword, fulfilling the prophecy.
gMWpD TIL that Florida is a flatter state than Kansas.
1aRj8 TIL of the late December Saturnalia, a festival celebrated for a 1,000 years by the Romans when people wore more informal clothes, gave presents to each other, had parties and slaves were allowed to gamble and get drunk in public.
eWxg TIL Louis CK gets stoned and watches 3D IMAX movies alone (at 14:00). “It’s my favorite thing in life”
v1V5x TIL Jim Carrey asked Nicolas Cage to co-star with him in 'Dumb and Dumber', however; Cage wanted to work on a smaller film called 'Leaving Las Vegas'. In 1996, Nicolas Cage won an Academy Award for Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas.