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Today I learned that the influx of silver from the discovery of the Potosi mines indirectly caused the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

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4GAg TIL the serious actors in Airplane! were specifically instructed and directed to “play it like they don’t know they’re in a comedy. Like no one told them.”
rR5je TIL that, in 1838, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story in which four shipwreck survivors were forced to eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker. 46 years later, the situation was mirrored uncannily in real life, as four shipwreck survivors were forced to eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker.
e0eGD Today I learned the city of Stockholm used the game Cities: Skylines to help design a new district and simulate housing and transportation
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RRol TIL there’s a deleted scene in ‘Back to the Future’ where Marty tells Doc that he’s worried hitting on his mother could make him gay.