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TIL Stanley Kubrick was embarrassed to discover that HAL’s initials were one letter up from IBM, which had helped the production of 2001, “and we would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence”

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O1V1 TIL: 93% of the Great Barrier Reef is now damaged by coral bleaching
gMDP4 TIL The restoration steps of Tutankhamun's golden sandal, They received it in a very bad condition, The sandal soles were completely disassembled, the sandal will be displayed in the huge hall of Tutankhamun in Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, in the next year (2021).
W7ekA TIL It wasn't in Until the Indian Citizen Act (1924) that Native Americans had the right to vote
ANYQ7 TIL there's an unexplained global effect called "The Hum" only heard by about 2-4% of the world's population. The phenomenon was recorded as early as the 1970s, and its possible causes range from industrial environments, to neurological reasons, to tinnitus, to fish.
R5kmj TIL Alton Brown was the cinematographer for REM's "The One I Love" music video