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

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1apYW TIL more than a third of divorce filings contained the word Facebook
neLY9 TIL Victorian upper class society ate ice cream and ices with a specialized fork (that was definitely a spork)
RyZ7 TIL that unlike any modern eyes, the lenses of trilobite eyes were actually constructed of calcite. This provided these ancient creatures with virtually unparalleled vision that was filled with streams of light and bursts of color, based on recent experiments conducted with calcite crystals.
8aOdK TIL rather than using a mirror, some observatory telescopes were built to use a large, spinning pool of liquid metal as a reflecting surface
9DKQ TIL: After legalizing white rhino hunting, South Africa saw an increase from 100 to 11,000 white rhinos in the country. Legalization of hunting motivated private land owners to reintroduce the species onto their land