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TIL Meghan Smith is the person with the most uncredited movie/series appearances on the planet. She is the woman whose portrait is printed on a newspaper prop used regularly over the past 60 years

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eo9g TIL the military has used Silly String to detect trip wires in Iraq. The strands of string go 10-12 feet and are light enough to not set off the tripwire.
78lDL TIL, That there is a book at Harvard bound in human skin, called 'Des destinées de l'âme' (Destinies of the Soul)
0wJR5 TIL the first close up photo from Mars was taking so long to print that impatient scientists taped the raw data to the wall and colored over it with pastel crayon manually assigning color and value to the binary code.
R7Og9 TIL there are 78 cities in the world with the population larger than the entire country of Finland
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