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TIL that to prepare for his role as Kyle Reese in the 1984 film The Terminator, Michael Biehn studied the Polish Resistance Movement of WW2.

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kOZ55 TIL a cubic foot of air weighs .08 lbs. A cubic mile of air weighs around 6 million tons! Now, imagine all that moving across the sky - no wonder storms are violent.
78ZjL TIL that Queen Joanna of Naples and Sicily headed directly into Avignon as it was being ravaged by the Black Plague, in an effort to meet the Pope and clear her name in the suspicous death of her husband
X011P TIL that two scientists realised that the very same AI/ML technology they developed to discover medicines for rare diseases could also discover 40,000 new chemical weapons in under a day.
KeWa TIL Eight people used Muhammad Ali’s legendary fight as a diversion to break into an FBI office. The stolen documents expose FBI of doing illegal surveillance
ZyLG TIL U.S is world’s largest exporter of sperm.