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d61j TIL the famous “rock” opening scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark was lifted from a 1954 Scrooge McDuck comic book.
GA5R1 Today I learned the ancient Greeks performed tonsillectomies, using the “hook and knife” method with direct sunlight to visualize the inflamed tissue
v9Ax TIL Pierre Boulle, author of “Planet of the Apes” and “The Bridge over the River Kwai”, won an Oscar for the later movie adaptation. Not speaking English and not having actually written the screenplay, Boulle gave the shortest acceptance speech in Academy Award history, the single word “Merci”.
5VG5p TIL ancient Roman tourists would visit Egyptian tombs and write negative reviews in graffiti, like not enjoying anything but the sarcophagus and being unhappy they couldn't read the hieroglyphs. These would ironically end up becoming valuable historical records themselves.
b9OZ7 TIL that the "General Sherman" tree in the Giant Forest is approximately 2200 years old. It would have been a little sapling 200 years before Jesus walked the earth