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TIL Shia LaBeouf once said The Kingdom of Crystal Skull dropped the ball on Indiana Jones legacy. His relationship with Steven Spielberg had been ruined since then, with Spilberg saying to LaBeouf: “There’s a time to be a human being and have an opinion, and there’s a time to sell cars.”

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wLXBY An almost sci-fi study published in Physical Review Letters by UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow Peter Hintz and colleagues could mean that there are black holes out there that would be more like portals than gaping mouths of destruction — if you didn’t mind your entire past being erased and entering into infinite futures.
GAN8E TIL that woodlice don't pee. They get rid of their nitrogenous waste by releasing ammonia gas through tiny holes in their shells, which gives them a pungent smell.
VBRPp TIL in 2019 Namibia mandated white-owned businesses to sell a 25 percent stake to blacks. The rating agency Fitch downgraded Namibia's economic outlook from stable to negative, saying the policy would scare away investors unwilling to cede stakes in their companies.
78GBb TIL Jagadish Chandra Bose found that plants were visibly reactive to all manner of stimuli: flashes of light, changes in temperature, plucking, pricking, screaming. Plants became numbed by drugs and drunk from alcohol.
R5VZ4 TIL During the American War of Independence, more Americans died as prisoners of war on British prison ships than all of the Revolutionary War engagements combined.