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TIL the producers of The Terminator (1984) were sued for plagiarism, by the writer of The Outer Limits (1964) due to an episode with a similar story.

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D197P TIL Researchers Turn Spinach Leaves Into Beating Heart Tissues
b9O7E TIL that a 'bad' Bean Boozle flavor is made by super-heating the actual disgusting item, putting it through a "gas chromotograph," isolating the chemical makeup, and converting it into "flavor markers" for the jelly bean.
16wZX TIL=Plastic has become such a central component of modern life, it has found its way into our Earth's crust itself, becoming a geological marker. But there's an upside: The plastic is so obvious in the Earth's crust, it gives an exact timetable for when that layer of ground became solid Earth.
Ep6p TIL that according to a joint study conducted by Northwestern and Princeton Universities, the United States is not a democracy, but is officially an oligarchy.
oByxA TIL, there are only 3 people in the United States still using iron lungs.