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Short answer: A solitary genius makes for a better screenplay

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GGm4 TIL 20 years ago a woman bought a Boeing 727 for $2,000. Four months and $28,000 later, she turned the 727 into her home.
l1JK TIL the most isolated person ever was Alfred Worden during Apollo 15, he was 2,235 miles away from the nearest human being.
lBZ1 TIL James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies was the first movie whose production budget was completely paid for by product placement.
VMDGp TIL the oldest existing analog computer was created around 100 BC and recovered from a shipwreck in 1901 after spending almost 2000 years underwater.
XyMj TIL In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of “being homosexual”, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness.