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TIL $5.60 of each plane ticket funds the TSA

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5YO0R TIL in 1976, the team studying a newly-identified virus in Africa didn't want to name it after the village where it was found, so they named it after the closest river they could see on a map, which was the Ebola River.
pV1G TIL that Stanley Kubrick asked journalists to refer to “2001: A Space Odyssey” as “two thousand and one” instead of “twenty-oh-one” hoping it would influence the pronunciation of that year.
BrVgW TIL an inventor, Ray Kurzweil, made a set of predications in the 90's that have a 80% success rate. According to his predications, by next year there will be a new world government, nanotechnology by 2025, and we will be able to upload the mind via technology by the 2030's.
6g8m TIL that Vincent van Gogh painted “Starry Night” from his room at Saint-Paul Asylum, where he self committed himself for mental illness.
kZ0E TIL Joan Ginther won millions four times from Scratch off tickets. Last prize….10 million.