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TIL Total Solar Eclipse helped prove Einstien right about Relativity, making him an instant celebrity.

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N75XQ TIL that in 2009 California milk processors funded a 22-minute rock opera titled "Battle for Milkquarious." It was marketed as "The most amazing rock opera ever made about milk."
oBLpo TIL Anna Nicole Smith never actually got money when her 90-year-old husband died. His will left his $1.6 billion estate to his son and nothing to her.
1aB0d TIL Matt Damon started writing Good Will Hunting (1997) as a final assignment for a playwriting class he was taking at Harvard University. At first, it was written as a thriller about a young man who possesses a superior intelligence and is targeted by the government with heavy-handed recruitment.
9MkG TIL a child molester who appeared in over 200 photographs of abuse used a ‘digital swirl’ effect to hide his identity. He was caught after police reversed the effect.
9YyOB TIL that in 1995 NASA updated an original study by Peter N Witt on the effects of various drugs on spiders and found similar results.