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1yaO TIL When astronomer Fritz Zwicky, father of dark matter, was banned from using the 200 inch Palomar telescope, he replied by calling them “a load of spherical bastards” because, he explained, they are bastards no matter which direction you look at them from.
LkPdZ TIL: An artist who synthesized features from many ancient busts and put the images through Photoshop layers and A.I. processes created "photographic" full-color portraits of Roman emperors.
P5Ww TIL the Kodak company used a 13-month calendar from 1924 to 1989 and George Eastman pushed for its worldwide acceptance.
0d68j TIL we’ve been trying to build the hyperloop since 1799
4kreg TIL that the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs is actually a sequel, with the first in the Hannibal Lector series being Manhunter from 1986.