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TIL that Paul Thomas Anderson dropped out from the NYU’s film program beacuse he handed in some of Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s work as his own and got it graded a “C”.

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bVnp TIL the Greek Navy commissioned a technologically-accurate trireme to be built in 1985, and that ship was used to prove that the legendary feats of ancient Athenian sailors were easily achievable with even untrained crews.
vPlPD TIL the saying "Drink the Kool-Aid" comes from a cult mass-suicide of 900 in Guyana in 1978 where the cultists drank it laced with cyanide. I also learned the drink was NOT Kool-Aid. It was actually poisoned Flavor Aid.
LQ0mP TIL: At 13, Waris Dirie fled her family in the Somali desert to escape an arranged marriage to a 60-year-old man. She made it to London and worked at Mcdonald's when she agreed to model for a photographer. She became a supermodel, appeared in a Bond movie & became a world-famous voice against FGM.
J5d8 TIL Kanye West hasn’t had a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 in 9 years
6EPmW TIL of Richard "Dick" Proenneke. He lived alone in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years. A documentary was made of his life, using this personal footage.