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TIL That the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network were played by the same guy. His face was digitally grafted to his body doubles after each scene was filmed

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WlnY TIL that the last living Buffalo Soldier, Mark Matthews, who fought in both world wars, had excellent health with no record of high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, etc until he was 109 years old, only then going partially blind.
rgmy TIL Coffin Torpedoes were invented in the 1800s to prevent grave robberies. They fired if the coffin was opened.
vPX6j TIL: US government made a lot of money from bailing out big banks in 2008. As of 2018, Fannie Mae has paid $176 billion in dividends to the Treasury Department, while Freddie Mac has paid $117 billion.
wox86 TIL that in 1965, philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus, a staunch critic of artificial intelligence, boldly claimed that a machine would never beat a human at the game of chess. It would only be two years before the outspoken scholar was himself checkmated by an MIT-developed computer.
o7VE TIL After pleas to remove a radio tower went unheard the French decided to simply blow it up. When the Soviet General angrily asked how could they do this, the French General Responded “With dynamite, my dear colleague.”