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TIL Margo Robbie learned to hold her breath for 5 minutes for Suicide Squad.

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b6ed7 TILL of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus. A genus of bacteria that hunts other bacteria
RJ4a TIL when scientists first realized that American gay men and Africans in France were both suffering from the same disease (AIDS), French researchers sent over a sample to be tested. But a scientist with a grudge against the French institute switched out the sample, setting research back years.
oB1GR TIL that Thomas Alva Edison did not invent the light bulb; electric light sources were being experimented since early 1800s and an English Physicist Sir Joseph Swan had a working prototype of electric incandescent light bulb more than a decade earlier than Edison.
yVKbX TIL of William Sidis who was raised by his father, a psychologist, to prove that extreme intelligence can be learned. He entered Havard a 11, spoke 25 languages including his own and published in various different topics. He might have been the smartest person to have ever lived.
LQ5w0 TIL that in 2009 the 90s video game composer and host of Video Games Live, Tommy Tallarico, once got caught smuggling over $100,000 into the USA