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TIL about Ben Taylor, who in 2017 responded to what sounded like a classic "Nigerian prince" scam on Facebook, and ended up befriending the man and raising thousands for a poor community in Liberia.

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ep08E TIL when actor Chazz Palminteri was 9yrs old living in the Bronx, he witnessed a mobster get killed in front of his apartment building. He included the incident in a one man play he wrote and starred in that Robert Deniro saw. They decided to turn it into the movie "A Bronx Tale".
nexXW TIL metabolized body fat is excreted mostly as Co2. So you "burn" fat and breath it out.
MebpB TIL that the work quarantine comes from the Italian word “quaranta” which means 40. This was the number of days sailors on a ship with a suspected infection had to stay in port before they were allowed on land.
P1evL TIL that although it is absent in mammals, the photoreceptive parietal eye--quite literally a third eye--was present in their closest extinct relatives, the therapsids
Brkrr TIL Nasa hasn't built any spacesuits since 1974. They've been reusing the same suits for 50 years, and currently only have 4 in operation.