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TIL the 1983 film "Talking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie" which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner," the title of which (but not the story) was used in the 1982 film "Blade Runner"

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0d4L1 TIL About Montgomery Meigs, Quartermaster General of the Army: He was one of the principal architects of Arlington National Cemetery; the choice of its location, on Robert E. Lee's family estate, Arlington House, was partly designed as a gesture to humiliate Lee for siding with the Confederacy.
X00Aj TIL about a 2021 discovery proving Italians knew about North America before Columbus's voyage
0Ljy TIL: In 1963, an East German soldier named Wolfgang Engels stole a tank and drove it through the Berlin Wall at top speed to try and escape.
OGPoe TIL researchers have found that the ancient Romans manipulated chemistry to make "quicklime" that caused "self healing" concrete, thereby preserving ancient Roman architecture, and answering why so many of their structures remain standing when modern structures fail.
wL1Oo TIL: Some roads in Australia are so long that the Australian government counteracts the risk of fatigue by playing little trivia games on the side of the road.