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TIL the actor in the Xenomorph suit in Aliens never acted in another movie.

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89K TIL in 2009, a Swiss-made watch was found in a 400-year-old Chinese tomb.
K0M6 TIL: The US leads in Medical Errors, making our costly health less safe than other ‘free’ systems.
PYXEg TIL that the last weekend of Saturday morning cartoons in America was aired on October 4th, 2014. The CW aired its last segment of "The Vortexx" and replaced it with a 5-hour block of educational programming called "One Magnificent Morning"
6EdNZ TIL the word Gymnasium comes from the Greek word Gymnazein which means to exercise naked.
X0YMQ TIL that the premiere of Gioachino Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville ended in complete disaster. One of the singers tripped over a trapdoor and had to sing with a bloody nose. During the Finale to Act 1, a cat wandered onstage and declined to leave, and so was forcibly flung to the wings.