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TIL that Eli Whitney’s cotton gin is short for “cotton engine”.
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TIL that the global economic crisis of 2008-10 was linked with at least 260,000 excess cancer deaths
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TIL that Okinawa Island, captured from Japan during the War in the Pacific, remained under American administration until 1972
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TIL Christopher Nolan will reportedly receive 20 percent of Tenet‘s first dollar gross, meaning he gets a percentage of the box office revenue beginning with the film’s release rather than the profit.
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TIL Chip-chan is a Korean woman in her 40's who believes her movements are being controlled by an implanted microchip. She has been livestreaming for over 10 years, sleeps 12 hours a day, and rarely leaves her apartment
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TIL John Williamas had no plans to compose the soundtrack for the Star Wars series. When he was writing for the first one, he was told there wouldn't be a second moving. Following the success of the movie, they told him that a second movie was cooking, and thus, the themes and leitmotifs were born!