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TIL that by 1984, the English band Depeche Mode desperately wanted to shed their youthful image.
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TIL that the Ford "deathtrap" Pinto was in fact safer than other cars in its class and on average just as safe as other cars on the road.
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Today I learned that "Staying Alive", John Travolta's breakout movie, was directed by Sylvester Stallone.
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TIL that the first video game ever created, *Tennis for Two*, was developed in 1958 by physicist William Higinbotham.
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TIL There’s a lake in Dominica that literally boils, surrounded by a steaming, alien-like landscape.
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TIL Bill Murray once offhandedly asked a Philadelphia waitress if she wanted anything "from the army-navy store" before leaving.
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TIL breast milk is a dynamic, living fluid that adapts to a baby's needs by changing its composition based on the baby's age, growth spurts, and even illness.
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TIL that the Wichita language, once spoken by the Wichita people of Oklahoma, went extinct in 2016 when its last fluent speaker, Doris McLemore, passed away.
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TIL that the 1977 Atari 2600 beat ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot at a game of chess
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TIL that the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Threshold”, widely regarded as one the worst episodes in all of Star Trek, was officially declared non-canon by its creators.
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TIL that William Shatner became a vocal advocate for climate action at the age of 90 years, after going to space in 2021.
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TIL your bones aren’t just rigid sticks holding you up—they’re alive, constantly reshaping to your habits.
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TIL that when Farscape aired in 1999 it was one of the most expensive TV shows ever made outside the US.
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