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TIL One of George Lucas’ influences for “Star Wars” was “The Lord of the Rings.”

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Wke5B TIL About "Event 201" a high-level pandemic exercise held on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which simulated the World wide impact of a Corona-virus pandemic
5Ygr9 TIL about Whitter, Alaska, an entire town in one building
xVjjB TIL about Luz Long, the Nazi Olympian Long Jumper who befriended Jesse Owens during the 1936 Olympics, and was such good friends that Owens was Long's son's best man at his wedding after WWII.
VXkG TIL Clint Eastwood was offered the role as James Bond, but although flattered he turned down the offer, stating that 007 should be played by an Englishman.
DQNmj TIL Rubbing from the Nestorian Stele. Erected in 781, the bilingual Chinese/Syriac text describes the arrival of Christianity from the Eastern Roman Empire in 635, and the early history of Christianity in Tang China