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TIL In the LoTR Trilogy movies, the tip of Gimli’s middle finger was actually a prosthetic

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5Yrwr TIL About the Wick Effect, when a human body is destroyed by fire due to their clothing having soaked up melted human fat which then acts like the wick of a candle – external heat/fire sources warm the body and then ignite it. It has been touted as an explanation for spontaneous human combustion.
KjA9 TIL that Shia LaBeouf only became an actor to support his poor family
9YNNr TIL David Letterman created a scholarship for the average “C student,” recognizing that it’s not all about marks, some are extraordinary and amazing in other ways.
wjjE TIL someone replaced 75% of their skull with a 3D-printed implant last March
yQwrX TIL Japan owns a larger percentage of US debt than China, and China only own 3.9% of the total US debt and 15.5% of foreign debt.