TIL that after John Lennon was shot in 1980, Yoko Ono asked the hospital to delay announcing his death because she did not want their 5-year-old son Sean to learn of his father's death from a TV announcement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon

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TIL when George Lucas first showed Carrie Fisher the metal bikini costume, she thought he was kidding & it made her very nervous cause it meant she'd be "nearly naked." She also said "I had to sit very straight because I couldn't have lines on my sides, like little creases. No creases were allowed".
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/is-princess-leia-star-wars-bikini-most-controversial-costume-sci-fi-history-180984804/?itm_source=related-content&itm_medium=parsely-api#:~:text=Fisher%2C%20who%20died,very%20rigid%20straight.%E2%80%9D

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TIL that a fictional language, Wenja, was created for Far Cry Primal by a team of linguists after Ubisoft deemed the 6,000 year old Proto-Indo-European to be too modern for the game's prehistoric setting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenja_language

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TIL on 28 February 1998, one day after recording the final episode of Father Ted, the show’s lead actor Dermot Morgan suffered a fatal heart attack while hosting a dinner party at his London home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermot_Morgan

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TIL that Caesar's famous quote "The Die is Cast" was not actually original, but him quoting the play "Arrephoros" by the greek playright Menander.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alea_iacta_est

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TIL that in 1990, a man named Iben Browning predicted a massive earthquake would hit New Madrid, Missouri on December 3rd. The prediction sparked a panic. Schools in 5 states closed, and over 200 media outlets sent reporters to the area. Browning had no seismology expertise, and nothing happened.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/history/30-years-ago-the-day-iben-browning-predicted-the-big-one-would-rock-our-world/article_e02af96c-1583-11ea-a681-6f732f142df7.html

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TIL that Boxing Day began as a day servants were allowed to visit their families, taking home a “Christmas box” of money, gifts and sometimes leftover food from their masters. A custom already common enough to be mentioned by Samuel Pepys in 1663.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

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TIL after the holidays, the Rockefeller Christmas tree is cut into lumber for Habitat for Humanity homes
https://www.rockefellercenter.com/magazine/arts-culture/rock-center-christmas-tree-donation-habitat-for-humanity-interview/

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TIL the film "The Fast and the Furious" was named after a 1954 B movie. The original noscripts were "Racer X" (the name of the article the movie was based on), "Redline," "Race Wars," and "Street Wars"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious_(2001_film)#Development

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TIL Marcahuasi, a plateau in the Peruvian Andes, has massive rocks resembling human faces and animals. While some claim they are ancient sculptures, archaeologists have determined they are the product of erosion. The site also features mysterious pre-Columbian ruins with doorways only 3 feet high.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcahuasi

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TIL that male pattern baldness doesn’t typically affect Native American, First Nations and Alaska Native peoples.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24515-male-pattern-baldness-androgenic-alopecia

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TIL Titanic is the only movie to earn $1 billion that is not part of a franchise or based on preexisting intellectual property (i.e. Barbie).
https://www.slashfilm.com/1360938/highest-grossing-non-franchise-movies-all-time/

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TIL King Henry V was once shot in the face with an arrow which was lodged 6 inches into his skull. A surgeon called John Bradmore, who was in prison at the time, crafted a custom extractor to remove it safely.
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/08/prince-hal-head-wound/

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TIL each episode of Stranger Things season 5 reportedly cost $50-60 million to produce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_season_5?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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TIL that in 1999, 15-year-old Jonathan James hacked into NASA and the Department of Defense, causing a 21-day shutdown of NASA's computers. He was the first juvenile incarcerated for cybercrime in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_James?hl=en-IN

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TIL John Adams’s Sedition Act banned false or malicious publishing against federal officials, including members of Congress and the President, but not against the Vice President—his political rival at the time, Thomas Jefferson.
https://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/essays/alien-and-sedition-acts/#:~:text=The%20Sedition%20Act%20outlawed%20actions,was%20wildly%20unpopular%20to%20Americans.

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TIL that at the peak of its popularity, Top Gear had a waiting list of 21 years for tickets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)#2006%E2%80%932014:_Changes_and_growing_popularity

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TIL humans "glow" by emitting a faint light that is not visible to the naked eye.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/all-living-things-faintly-glow-ultraweak-photon-emission-upe

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TIL the CSI Fingerprint Examination Kit (which was marketed off the show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) was removed from stores after the kit's fingerprint powder was found to contain up to 7% asbestos, the type of which has been proven to be capable of causing lung cancer from a single exposure.
https://gizmodo.com/10-incredibly-dangerous-banned-toys-1627171910#:~:text=4.%20CSI%20Fingerprint,went%20bankrupt

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TIL that Venezuela was the 4th richest country in the World in the 1950s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Venezuela

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TIL that in many modern cars, the turn-signal “click” is played through the audio system because the electronics don’t naturally make that sound anymore.
https://www.jalopnik.com/heres-why-your-turn-signals-make-that-clicking-noise-1793380845/

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