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TIL Architects tried to raise $2.9 billion to build Minas Tirith, the city in "Lord of the Rings"

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a8dy TIL: Shindler’s list is banned in Indonesia for being “sympathetic to the Jewish cause”
0dy9R TIL Mary the Color Scientist is a thought experiment about a scientist in a black & white world. She has extensive knowledge of color but no actual experience of it. The experiment asks whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes outside of the colorless world and experiences seeing in color.
R5p71 TIL most movies are displayed at 24 frames per second (fps). For context - most video games can look bad below 60 fps. The reason they still look "good" to us is because cameras capture "motion blur", which tricks the brain into nicely stitching frames together.
p8l0Q TIL that Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold at auction for the then record price of $82 million in 1990. Since then it has not been seen in public. Its Japanese buyer threatened to have it burnt with his cremation but it is now believed to be owned by a collector in Switzerland.
vboR TIL the oldest running car, built in 1884, sold in 2011 for $4.6 million. “La Marquise” - top speed: 38 mph (61 km/h) - runs on coal, wood, and bits of paper, taking 30–40 minutes to build up enough steam to drive.