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

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NaVM TIL Futurama writer Ken Keeler invented and proved a mathematical theorem strictly for use in the plot of an episode
R50W6 TIL Japanese beekeepers use the pheromone threat response from wasps to trap them in glue traps to keep their hives safe
XWAP TIL The head of MI6’s Anti-Communist Section (IX) in 1944, was actually a Communist passing information on to Moscow.
mxxeE Our fear of fevers made us terrified of even a slight increase in body temperature.
m14ky TIL that there is an island off the coast of Long Island, New York that has been been privately owned by the same family for 400 years