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TIL that the initial title of Alien was Star Beast. Its writer disliked it and changed it to Alien after noting the number of times that the word appeared in the script. The writer and his cowriter liked the new title's simplicity and its double meaning as both a noun and an adjective.
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TIL that the initial title of Alien was Star Beast. Its writer Dan O'Bannon disliked it and changed it to Alien after noting the number of times that the word appeared in the script. O'Bannon and his cowriter liked the new title's simplicity and its double meaning as both a noun and an adjective.
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TIL that the initial title of Alien was Star Beast. Its writer Dan O'Bannon disliked it and changed it to Alien after noting the number of times that the word appeared in the script. O'Bannon and his cowriter liked the new title's simplicity and its double meaning as both a noun and an adjective.
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A Clefairy is more apparent on the Japanese version of the Darkrai ex card because it has less text than the US version.
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This Cloud iridescence happens when tiny water droplets or ice crystals scatter sunlight, creating rainbow-like colors in clouds. Usually seen near the sun, this rare phenomenon lasts only moments.
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TIL that the Art of War, written by Sun Tzu in 5th-century BC, came to the attention of US’ military theory leaders after US' defeat in the Vietnam War, as Viet Cong officers studied it. It is since listed on US Marine Corps Program and used as instructional material at US Military Academy.
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TIL of the Mishima incident. On 11/25/1970, Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and his militia entered a military base in Tokyo, took its commandant hostage, and tried to get the Japan Self-Defense Forces to restore national defense and the emperor divinity. After this failed, he committed seppuku.
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TIL that a man named Walter White was on probation after being arrested in 2008 for trafficking methamphetamine, manufacturing and possession of a controlled substance, and possession of precursor materials. Going back to making methamphetamine, he was on the most wanted list and arrested in 2012.
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TIL about the Dabous Giraffes petroglyphs, neolithic petroglyphs on the western side of the Aïr Mountains in north-central Niger. The carvings are 6 metres (20 ft) in height and consist of two giraffes carved between 6,000 and 8,000 years ago into the Dabous Rock with a great amount of details.
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TIL that in 2014 a Spanish-language version of “Breaking Bad” called “Metastasis” was created with the same premise but happening in Bogota, Colombia. Instead of Walter White, the protagonist was Walter Blanco, played by Colombian actor Diego Trujillo.
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TIL that a man named Walter White, who was the best meth cook in Alabama, was sentenced in 2013 to 12 years in prison.
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TIL that Leonard Nimoy was the narrator of Seaman, a 2000 Sega Dreamcast virtual pet simulator that had you use a microphone to converse with a moody, sarcastic man-fish, developed by Yutaka Saito (known for The Tower).
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TIL that objects moving at speeds, durations, and distances similar to those of our rapid eyes movements (saccades) can become invisible to us, even when our eyes are still, and that people with faster saccadic eye movements can perceive faster-moving objects better than those with slower ones.
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TIL about the revenge of the 47 rōnin, an event in Japan in which a band of rōnin (lordless samurai) avenged the death of their former master, who was ordered to commit seppuku by a powerful official. After waiting for a year, they killed the official, surrendered themselves and committed seppuku.
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Peter, I get the cockroach part but what about the woman?
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TIL about Eugène-François Vidocq (1775-1857), a French criminal turned criminalist, whose life story inspired several writers, including Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Honoré de Balzac. He is the father of the French national police force and regarded as the first private detective.
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TIL that fatty liver disease, a type of chronic liver disease happening when there is excessive fat build-up in the liver, is becoming the leading cause of primary liver cancer (Hepatocellular carcinoma)
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From diplomacy to duels: French President Macron surprises Yu-Gi-Oh! fans at world championship
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