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TIL we shed .4 oz of skin per day

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Z8Q0B TIL That women also competed as gladiators in ancient Rome and there is a marble relief dating to around the 2nd century A.D. depicting a bout between two women dubbed “Amazon” and “Achillia,” whom the inscription says fought to an honorable draw.
R7w44 TIL the grizzly scene in Pulp Fiction where Travolta jams a needle into Uma Thurman's chest to try to revive her from her overdose was actually filmed backwards.
mxlwo TIL the set of The Addams’ Family was actually very colorful because everything would turn out black and white on film anyway
OY74 TIL that the spider that bites Tobey Magquire in ‘Spider-Man’ was chosen after a “spider Olympics,” and was then painted with body paint when time didn’t allow for a spider costume to be created
neKdP TIL that an Ohio man was declared legally dead in 1994 before resurfacing in 2013 and suing to be declared alive, but the court declined . He remains legally dead