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by quesera 4589 days ago
Pedantry, but hopefully interesting:

Gattaca is spelled with two A's. The letters in the word are from DNA base pairs: guanine, thymine, adenosine, and cytosine.

Attica is a part of ancient Greece. Also a prison in New York.

Not sure which reference the creator of Gattaca intended. Maybe both.