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TIL that the infamous “chestburster” scene in “Alien” was inspired by a screenwriter’s struggle with Crohn’s disease, a inflammatory bowel disease that made him feel like something was trying to punch its way out of his chest.

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OG6vL TIL JT LeRoy wrote two novels on his tragic childhood, dubbing him a genius of his generation, sparking a race for their film rights. He was friends with celebs like Madonna & Winona Ryder, talking to them for hours over the phone. It turns out JT Leroy didn’t exist and was in fact entirely made up.
Z8bkY TIL astronauts typically spend a week in quarantine before any space mission, in order to prevent themselves from giving any possible illnesses to the rest of their crew
5YxEQ TIL Charles Dickens once jumped in through the window of his wife-to-be's home dressed in a sailor suit, did a jig whilst playing the hornpipe, jumped back out the window again and re-entered the room as if nothing had happened.
MeYJK TIL Taiwan has the offices of "Sacrificial Official to Confucius", "Sacrificial Official to Mencius", "Sacrificial Official to Zengzi" and "Sacrificial Official to Yan Hui", held by the eldest descendent of these persons; before 1935, they were nobility titles
rRn61 TIL that DNA companies to that analyze your DNA to find where your local origins are from, are just guesses at best. Identical twins who sent their probes in, didn’t get same results. Experts in this video state that those analysis are only a product for entertainment with low accuracy.