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TIL Director Andrei Tarkovsky’s cancer may have been caused by prolonged filming near a chemical plant for the film Stalker (1979)

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W7o64 TIL that scientist Lynn Margulis, famous for the idea that mitochondria and chloroplasts were once free-roaming prokaryotes, was at one time married to astronomer Carl Sagan.
X0rbQ TIL that in 1963 France launched the first cat into space. She was a Parisian stray called Félicette.
0wyK5 TIL during the Chinese Civil War, Stalin had advised a coalition government between CPC-KMT in postwar China, but the proposal was rejected by Mao.
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GYnb4 TIL After being threatened by the KKK for releasing the R&B track "What a man" in 1968, Linda Lyndell didn't perform again for 35 years, only making a comeback after Salt-N-Pepa sampled the song in their hit "Whatta Man".