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

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p8N4p TIL that an Irish farmer called Quin was digging for potatoes in 1868 and instead found the Ardagh chalice, which remains one of the finest insular works of art we have of the celtic period.
VBW6B TIL that before the Civil War there were 8,000 different kinds of money in circulation in the US - the same banknote had different value depending on location
Q8rd TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
4Rpa TIL in 1902, the Greek symbol Caduceus (two snakes on a winged pole) was mistakenly used as the emblem for the US Medical Corps instead of the Rod of Asclepius (one snake climbing a pole), the true Greek symbol for medicine. Despite this error, the US still widely uses it to represent healthcare.
R7rD4 TIL that PhD students display twice as many symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as depression than other people.