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TIL that before 1933 King Kong film came out, a novel based on the screenplay was released as part of the advertising campaign, which is opposite of more common route of films that start as novels before being adapted into a screenplay

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loE7a TIL of the legend of the French shepherd boy who hid his milk curds and bread in a cave to chase a beautiful girl. Although he lost the girl, a few weeks later he discovered his milk curds had become a tasty cheese with veins of a blue mold. Roquefort cheese is still made from the same mold.
BRRD TIL the earth was hit by an intense radiation burst of unknown cause between 774 and 775 AD.
x6O0 TIL after Beethoven heard Mauro Giuliani play the guitar, he commented that the instrument was “a miniature orchestra in itself”.
JmrQ TIL Fiddler crabs are asymmetrical, with one claw being much larger than the other. In most species, when the big claw is lost, it regenerates as a small claw while the small one becomes the new big claw.
e096D TIL The Golden State Killer was found after one of his cousins took a DNA test similar to 23 and Me