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TIL: People credit Barbara Brocoli for the legendary James Bond films when it was actually Albert R. Brocoli (her father) that was the producer up to Golden Eye (Golden Eye was associate producer).

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YpZxA TIL that people with low IQ’s are more likely to reproduce than those with high IQ’s.
wooVJ TIL that a fire destroyed most of Harvard Library’s collection in 1764. Only a small number of books were spared, including 144 that were checked out at the time. One of these books was found and returned in 1997.
MXvV TIL that the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi first proposed the “Matrix philosophy” after dreaming he was a Butterfly. “Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man”
opjW TIL that there’s a public basketball court in Alma, Colo., which sits at an elevation of 10,578 feet above sea level. It’s literally the highest court in the land.
e8R5 TIL the actor who played Uncle Fester, Jackie Coogan, also starred as the kid with Charlie Chaplin in “The Kid”. After his parents spent almost all of his $3-$4 million earnings, the “Coogan Bill” was passed to protect child actors. He was also a WWII pilot and married to Betty Grable.