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TIL that the fictional material “Transparent Aluminium”, in the 1986 film Star Trek IV, became an experimental reality in 2009

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JJxB TIL The Korean text in “The Interview” poster says, “"The war will begin”, “Do not trust these ignorant Americans!” and “Awful work by the ‘pigs’ that created Neighbors and This Is the End.”
ylw TIL that followers of Native American Church can legally use, transport and possess peyote.
DQ5bp TIL about Exploding Head Syndrome, where some people have auditory hallucinations of loud crashing and exploding sounds when they're falling asleep and/or waking up
RZ1a TIL that the only deaths to have occurred in space thus far were in 1971, when 3 Soviet cosmonauts fell victim to a catastrophic decompression of their return module. The module executed a perfect automated landing, without a living person on-board.
70bP TIL computers cannot be programmed to generate a set of truly random numbers on their own. For things like encryption keys and online gaming sites, companies use RANDOM.org which uses atmospheric noise to develop truly random numbers.