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TIL Gal Gadot was unaware she was auditioning for Wonder Woman. She thought she would be testing for Catwoman

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M7Ge0 TIL the US government accidentally discovered the first Gamma Ray Bursts using their spy satellites during the Cold War
8eB0Z TIL in 1980s, there was an anonymous leaflet that listed a group of food additives as carcinogens. It was widely circulated and caused a mass panic in Europe.
449g TIL without affirmative action, whites, blacks, and Latinos drop in college admission rates…Asian admission rates rise.
VMXQp TIL Burger King has a veggie burger that has more calories than their bacon double cheeseburger.
D1gED TIL: About “Garden Path Sentences”, a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader’s most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end or yields a clearly unintended meaning. Like “The old man the boat”