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TIL Mike Tyson was high on cocaine when filming his cameo in The Hangover

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p8ooG TIL the division sign symbol is called obelus. I guess there's a name for everything...
8eyAP TIL archeologists have been using remote sensing equipment like LIDAR to find lost cities in places like Ecuador and it's revolutionizing the field with major discoveries of previously unknown ancient cities in the Americas.
7a6X TIL that Gandalf hits his head by accident in The Fellowship of the Ring, in Bag End, but Ian Mckellen played it off so well that Peter Jackson kept it in the movie! (#41 in link)
9wNwX TIL that around 2020, anthropogenic mass (human-made material) was expected to exceed all living biomass on earth
Y4Vv TIL that emporer penguins are over four feet tall, don’t eat for almost two months during incubation, and can dive up to 1,500 feet in search of fish. But that’s nothing compared to their ancestors who topped out at 6'8, nearly as large in height and weight to LeBron James.