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TIL NASA named Gattaca as the best (accurate) science fiction movie of all time.

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wLWm1 TIL The 'MAS*H' theme song "Suicide Is Painless" was written by a 14-year-old and meant to be "stupid."
epmGk TIL that in competitive chess, if you want to adjust a piece that has been knocked over or jostled away from the center of its square, you use the French terms "J'adoube", which also means "I nominate (to a position)" and "I bestow knighthood upon (someone)".
b6BZ9 TIL - the RAV4 V6 model had the fastest 0-60 time (~6.5s) of all Toyota's from 2006-2013. It lost that title in 2013 because Toyota dropped the V6 option for the next generation RAV4.
lo1EN TIL: Much of Earth's water is older than the Sun, and come from deep space.
JYYM1 TIL that the term for the criminal act "racketeering" is defined as "a repeated or continuous way to illegally obtain or extort money" -usually set up as a form of business.