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TIL that Claudia Christian (Babylon 5) was one of the first TV actors in the industry to be shown how computers were being used to generate visual FX in that new field of the 1990's.

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9YyOG TIL that, during the 2017 London Bridge Terror Attack, a man fought all three attackers with his fists shouting "Fuck you, I'm Millwall". He was stabbed eight times and survived.
B5Dx TIL that George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm among others, was a Spanish Civil War veteran. He served with the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist international brigade fighting for the Loyalist (Republican) faction.
OoAje TIL that Finland's Lågskär island lighthouse contained the world's first rotating gas lighting device
9YYj6 TIL that Songdo City in S. Korea uses pneumatic tubes in all apartments to transport waste to a central disposal center
7rdnM TIL about “spreading depolarization”, a scientific phenomena where the human brain continues to emit brain waves after the heart stops, for several minutes even. When Anne Boleyn was beheaded her detached head reportedly tried to talk.