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TIL that the Australian accent developed from early settlers who spent most of their days drunk

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w7kM TIL The Hammer of Thor is one of the official religious emblems available for headstones in U.S. military cemeteries.
awDP0 TIL To create an accurate depiction of a black hole in the movie Interstellar, Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, wrote pages of theoretical equations to help the VFX team. The resulting visual effects provided Thorne with new insights, resulting in the publication of three scientific papers.
5VdL8 TIL electron orbitals are 3 dimensional standing waves.
VM8Gp TIL: Sylvester Stallone approached Queen for the right to use Another One Bites the Dust for Rocky III but they declined. So he asked Survivior to write a song. They came up with Eye of the Tiger and the rest is history.
X5Or TIL that you don’t need to buy a Micro or Nano SIM card, you can use scissors and cut a normal sized SIM card to fit the slot.