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TIL Hans Zimmer wrote the score for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar based off a one page letter about “what it means to be a father.”

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4lbR TIL there are only two living people left in the world that were born in the 1800’s.
Jak8 TIL the first item bought on Ebay was a broken laser pointer. The buyer? A collector for broken laser pointers.
mOmx TIL: During the civil war, after amputation of limbs from injury, surgeons would pull out the nerves as far as possible before cutting them, so they would shrink back up to there origin. This would prevent pain later, but was usually done under no anesthetic.
M7kYa TIL of the Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, ruling between 1081 and 1118. Due to his frequest mutilation and blinding of enemies he was given the epithet "Misophaes" - Hater of Sunlight
7RkP TIL that while filming “The African Queen” in the Congo, everyone on the crew became very ill with dysentery from drinking the water; everyone except Humphrey Bogart, who only drank whiskey