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TIL that the famous “Fallout”-Style is actually called Atompunk.

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ne5pP TIL Gaia Online, an anime-themed social networking site, hired a Stanford University economist to help manage their economy that was having problems due to inflation.
Z8QjQ TIL in 2012, Jihadists armed with a sharpened crutch and explosives attempted to hijack a plane by telling passengers "anyone who stands up will die". They were successfully beaten into submission after a passenger yelled "Come on! Let's stand up and fight them". Two hijackers died.
e0nED TIL that "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965) was rejected at first by CBS: they didn't like that amateur children were doing the voices, they didn't like the "anti-consumerism" theme of the plot -- and they didn't like the music.
wLlGJ TIL David Bowie's final album "Blackstar" was heavily influenced by Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp A Butterfly"
MeRxV TIL that Director Spike Lee publicly criticized Clint Eastwood for lack of African-American performers in "Letters from Iwo Jima (Japanese POV of the war)," in which Eastwood retaliated, that the US military refused to let most "colored" servicemen on the front line.