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TIL Raul Julia or 'Gomez' from Addams Family (1991) was visibly ill with stomach cancer on set of the sequel. He died less than a year later.

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TIL that cheese is the most stolen food in the world. 4% of global cheese supply is stolen every year

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TIL that Yungay, Peru was the site of the deadliest avalanche in history. In 1962, two American scientists predicted the calamity, and were consequently forced to flee by the government. 8 years later, their prediction came true and 20,000 people were killed in a day.

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TIL that Pelé’s last game was an exhibition match between his two former clubs: the New York Cosmos and Santos. Pelé played the first half for Cosmos and the second half for Santos.

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TIL that Lea Thompson (Back to the Future) studied ballet as a girl & danced professionally by the age of 14, winning multiple prestigious scholarships. Told she did not have the right body to become a prima ballerina by Mikhail Baryshnikov himself, she changed her focus to acting.

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TIL the flag of the Philippines is flown with the red side on the upper side in times of war and the blue side on the upper side during times of peace.

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TIL that Billie Holiday died broke - with just $0.70 in her bank account and an estate worth $1000, despite being a household name.

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TIL more than 2,000 homeless people live underground in New York City. Commonly referred to as “Mole People”, they have a hierarchical community and often times are living directly under the most populous parts of the city

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TIL that Silent Hill was based off a real town, Centralia, which still has a toxic coal mine burning underneath them 60 years later.

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Today I learned that the Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" made the writers consider doing a Simpsons spinoff called "Springfield Stories", which, like the episode, would focus on Springfield in general, rather than the Simpsons themselves.

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TIL The character Machete is canonical the same character as Machete from the “spy kids” movies.

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TIL that during the second Vatican Council, a Cardinal from Belgium shouted "Why are we even discussing the future of the Church when half the Church is not even here?" Referring to the lack of women religious on the Council. 23 women were then appointed as auditors

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TIL World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen trolls online chess games in his free time under the name “Dr Drunkenstein”

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TIL that Polish jews made a suicidal last stand in opposition to deportation during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Armed only with outdated or homemade weapons and using guerilla tactics, they were able to hold off Nazi forces led by Heinrich Himmler for close to a month.

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TIL a lab study found honeybee venom (which has the compound "melittin") destroyed 2 types of hard to treat breast cancer cells. Melittin on its own reduced cancer cell growth & can be produced synthetically. One venom concentration killed cancer cells within 1 hour with minimal harm to other cells.

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TIL that in 1665 an outbreak of bubonic plague ravaged London. Those with the financial means to escape to the countryside did just that. Unfortunately for those left behind, the flight from the city included many of its most prominent doctors.

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TIL turning the subtitles on for kids' TV massively improves their reading

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TIL that Salt & Vinegar Pringles aren't vegan, but Smoky Bacon Pringles are.

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TIL That while shooting Resident Evil there was an accident that injured 16 people. First responders to the scene thought there was a catastrophe and had trouble assessing the injuries due to the victims zombie costumes.

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TIL Ancient Egyptian dwarfs were viewed as people with celestial gifts. They enjoyed high status, worked in the royal palaces and often held prestigious jobs. Dwarfs likely travelled from distant lands to enjoy life in the Old Kingdom.

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TIL Henry VIII may have been a carrier for the rare Kell blood antigen that would have caused his wives’ antibodies to attack their Kell-positive fetuses, resulting in neonatal death

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TIL Marilyn Monroe’s signature breathy speaking voice was actually a tactic the actress used to overcome a childhood stutter. A speech therapist reportedly trained her to adopt the throaty style, and it ended up becoming one of her standout traits as an actress and singer.

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TIL the Rubik's Cube was originally designed to solve “the structural problem [of] how could the blocks move independently without falling apart.” It wasn’t until the designer Erno Rubik couldn’t “reset” his cube that the idea of a puzzle was conceived.

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TIL White-tailed Eagles kept flying into moving turbine blades at the Smøla wind farm in Norway. An experiment of painting a single blade black on each of two turbines compared to two unpainted turbines found that the bird deaths declined by 70%.

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TIL that drivers with more expensive cars are less likely to yield to pedestrians. A study has found that the likelihood of yielding goes down by 3% for every extra $1,000 in car value.

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TIL that polka dots are called that simply because the polka was a fashionable dance around the time the pattern became popular, and there's no other reason.

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TIL 65% of Staten Island voted to secede from the rest of New York City in 1993, only to have their efforts blocked by the State Assembly

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TIL that the “Twin Pop” popsicle was invented during the great depression so that two children could split one for a nickel.

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TIL Kevin Smith’s Dogma is unavailable to stream or purchase digitally and is out of print on home media.

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TIL The so-called "Dancing Doctor", who filmed "instructional" music videos during surgery had her license suspended for 2 1/2 years in 2018 after several patients were severely scarred (one was brain damaged) and it was discovered that she was a dermatologist and not a board certified surgeon.

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TIL that all felines directly register- this means that when they walk, their back paw walks into the exact area where the front paw stepped, to minimize sound and to ensure stable footing

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TIL the Ceaser salad, staple of every Italian restaurant, was invented in Tijuana, Mexico.

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TIL that when a sailor with chronic sea sickness was ordered back to sea because the doctors denied that sea sickness was a real illness, an admiral ordered all port medical staff to take a short voyage by ship in rough seas. The next day the doctors changed their opinion.

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TIL that goose bumps are considered a vestigal reflex (no longer necessary) in humans; it's purpose in apes is to straighten body hairs to make the animal both appear larger and keep warm.

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TIL the Grateful Dead briefly toured with a PA system called the Wall Of Sound that consisted of six hundred and four speakers, channelling twenty-six thousand watts of power. It has been called “the greatest vessel for the amplification of sound in history”.

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TIL At the height of the Japanese Real Estate bubble in 1989, Tokyo, on paper, was worth twice the value of the whole United States

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TIL that a smell can recall emotional memories better than any other sense. A sense of smell is also linked to overall psychological well-being.

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TIL that the town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, after being left off of of the official state road map, attempted to secede from Wisconsin. They wished to either declare independence and annex neighboring towns, or alternatively be integrated into another state, 'preferably one with better weather'.

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TIL in 1865, Charles Dickens was traveling home from France when his train derailed while crossing a bridge, and his car was left dangling from the tracks. He helped save stranded passengers and then climbed back into the dangling car to find a manuscript he was supposed to send to his publishers.

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TIL Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini were friends at one point, however Doyle refused to accept Houdini performed using trickery and believed he had supernatural powers. Their friendship ended after Houdini exposed séance mediums who claimed to have powers to talk to the dead.

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TIL there are no common Thai last names. 81% of family names were unique. There is a law that does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames. Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related.

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TIL that a 14th century Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta went as far as modern Indonesia, China, India, Russia, Central Asia, Balkans, Spain, Tanzania, West Africa and Maldives, and was by far the most well-travelled human before the modern era. He wrote an account of his travels, known as The Rihlah.

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TIL the American with the most days in space is Peggy A. Whitson. At 665 days, she has nearly spent two years literally without her feet on the ground.

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TIL In 1999, a 6-year-old chimpanzee named Raven became the 22nd most successful money manager on Wall Street. She delivered a 213% gain and outperformed more than 6,000 professional brokers. Raven chose her stocks by throwing darts at a list of 133 internet companies

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TIL black people in ancient Rome were not discriminated against because of their skin colour or physical features. They were not excluded from any profession and there was no stigma against mixed race relationships. Classical writers did not attach social status or degree of humanity to skin colour.

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TIL David “Gypsy” Chain, a 24 year old environmental activist who protested against logging of redwood trees. He was killed by a falling tree intentionally chopped down by a logger. Despite evidence of the logger threatening to kill the protestors, the district attorney didn’t press any charges.

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TIL that the Fairy Tales of Ludwig Bechstein were once more popular then the Brothers Grimm. In those tales women were self reliant instead of damsels in distress, and step-mothers were not treated as "wicked" since many German mothers died in childbirth and the role of stepmother was so important.

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TIL Ruthie Tompson, one of the animators of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia, and Sleeping Beauty, is still alive. She is 110 years old

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TIL when pursued, kangaroos will lure the chaser to bodies of water. So they can hold their pursuer under and drown them.

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TIL in 2001 Ashton Kutcher went to pick his girlfriend up for a date but she never answered the door. He peeked in a window & saw what looked like wine stains on the floor.Unbeknownst to him she had just been killed by serial killer Michael Gargiulo who stabbed her 47 times & was sentenced to death

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