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TIL to date, we have only explored 5% of the sea.
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TIL: Even though the 5th card is easier to get on a flush (35%) vs a straight (31.5% or less), the odds of getting the first four cards to a flush are nearly half that of getting four cards to a straight. This is why flushes are ranked higher.
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TIL- The first movie ever watched on the ISS was ‘The Sixth Sense’ and no one really liked it much.
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TIL that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro
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TIL that it was Plato who suggested that telling a lie was OK as long as it was for the good of the people. He called it the noble lie.
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TIL Sherlock Holmes never speaks the line "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was said by Basil Rathbone in the movie 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'