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TIL the 2006 movie ‘Children of Men’ featured content depicting the London 2012 Olympic games

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Q0ma TIL North Korea is manufacturing and distributing meth amphetamine; in the country itself it is used as a substitute for medicine
P1KMw TIL of The Swing Youth were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in 1939. They admired the "American way of life", defining themselves in swing music and opposing Nazism. With a focus on African-American music they were particularly spiteful of the Hitler Youth.
4knvo TIL in the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming ran a team for decades, classified tens of thousands of stars, & discovered white dwarfs and the Horsehead Nebula.
Q5VL TIL there are Pacific Islanders with black skin and blond hair who’s DNA is the only type in the world to show more of a link to Denisovans than Neanderthals.
YYWG TIL that animals and their meat have different names (e.g. deer = venison) because the peasants that raised the animals used the animal’s Germanic name while the aristocracy that ate them used the French name.