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TIL that King James bible wasn't the first English translation of the bible. There were a bunch of other translation with the oldest one taking place in the 14th century.

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5YnG8 TIL that in 1666 the Dutch painter Willem van de Velde, when tasked with portraying a sea battle, manned a ship himself to make live drawings of the ongoing Four Days Battle from as close as possible.
QN4Ae TIL Everything Everywhere All At Once was filmed in only 38 days.
wLWN7 TIL that on 18th April 1930, BBC announced that there was no news and played piano music on the radio instead.
l7v7V TIL of a court in France which stopped a girl being named "Nutella" and forcibly renamed her to Ella in the absence of her parents. The Judge said that the name Nutella would "only lead to teasing or disparaging thoughts," a complaint not heard by her parents as they did not attend the hearing.
4krVR TIL that cats can have hypersomnia disorders (narcolepsy, cataplexy) just as humans do. It's harder to diagnose due to cats usual 16-20hrs/day sleep cycle, and it's as rare as in humans, but did you ever see your cat falling asleep in a middle of something?