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TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"

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ADDxx TIL that Carl Sagan wrote Contact, later made into the movie featuring Jodie Foster.
bZe0 TIL The relative number of English speakers is higher in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands than it is in Canada.
Dr8V TIL there is a sect that wants to clone Hitler in order to bring him to justice. They also beleive that aliens created life on earth.
dPkB TIL the company that created the cgi effects for the film Interstellar (2014) had to change their program because all effects software assumed light goes in a strait line.
4kMjN TIL about the Zanclean flood: 5.33 Mya the dried-up Mediterranean Sea completely refilled within months, after being cut-off from the Atlantic for 630,000 years (Messinian salinity crisis). The waters broke through the Strait of Gibraltar at 1,000x the rate of the Amazon!