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TIL of Universe 25, an experiment which involved creating a controlled environment Utopia for mice, that ended with abnormal behaviours ultimately leading to the colony's extinction

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JYv8k TIL the movie "Baby Driver" was first imagined when director Edgar Wright heard the song "Bellbottoms" and imagined a getaway driver waiting for his crew to complete a bank heist. He tested the concept while directing the music video for "Blue Song" by Mint Royal in 2003, almost 15 years earlier.
46pg TIL: In 2012 a crew of scientists on a ship discovered a rather large error in maps - an entire island marked on maps that did not exist.
R7Pv7 TIL that of the 12 Generals who became presidents, only 3 (Washington, Eisenhower, and Andrew Johnson) didn't have bases named after them.
vPan7 TIL that around 60,000 Australian soldiers and 3,900 New Zealand soldiers fought in the Vietnam war alongside the USA between 1962/64 -1972
KKNJ TIL France banned an ad depicting Jesus as a female because of its “intrusion on people’s innermost beliefs”