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TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.

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Av0g TIL of anesthesia awareness, a condition in which a patient under anesthesia is completely conscious yet unable to physically move their body. Patients are fully aware for the entirety of their operation and are able to feel pain without the ability to alert the doctors to stop the procedure.
NvbM TIL that California now requires that jurors be explicitly told that a rape conviction can be based on the accuser’s testimony alone, without corroboration.
69PPQ TIL of the life of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Hungarian jew who was sucessively a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, Buddhist abbot in China, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.
dDeyj TIL that the brain only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts.
rRWpe Today I learned that there are brown dwarf stars which emit little to no visible light and can be as cold as - 55° to 8° F. They can be between 13 and 80 times the mass of Jupiter and fuse Lithium instead of Hydrogen.