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TIL Inception was originally suppose to be a horror movie

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O47 TIL that the Hubble can identify something only 10-24 km across at a distance of 4.7 billion km. That’s the equivalent of seeing a red blood cell at a distance of 1 km.
5Ve7Q TIL the piano failed to catch on when it was first invented in 1700. It was only after Johann Zumpe made improvements and J.S. Bach socially promoted the piano in 1768 that it eventually displaced the harpsichord as the preferred keyboard instrument.
B9pd TIL: In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran a feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV. The piece claimed that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection and went on to state that “most heterosexuals are not at risk”.
ABVw TIL The motto for Gas, Kansas is “Don’t Pass Gas, Stop and Enjoy It”
Zp40o TIL Alexei Navalny was able to record a conversion with FSB agent Konstantin Borisovich Kudryavtsev who confessed poisining his underwear