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TIL that Anthony Perkins, famously known for his role as Norman Bates in Psycho, learned he was HIV-positive from a tabloid newspaper. While undergoing blood tests for a facial palsy, his blood was tested for HIV and the results were leaked.

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WkWMN TIL Narinder Singh Kapani (1926-2020) is acknowledged as the Father of 'Fiber optics'-a term he coined. His work in 1953 ushered in a new era of High speed Internet, endoscopy, spectroscopy etc An unsung hero, he never patented it. He NEVER won a nobel.
4Mpb TIL that due to time dilation one could travel thousands of light years in a human lifespan without exceeding the speed of light
gMmED TIL that the word "bangarang", made famous by the film Hook, is Jamaican slang for, "riot, disturbance, or mischief."
M7eBa TIL an octopus mermaid (Such as Ursula from Disney's The Little Mermaid) is called a "Cecaelia", a modern term derived primarily from a black-and-white comic in Vampirella Magazine from the early 1970s featuring a woman/octopus hybrid character named Cilia.
OoM41 TIL that tigers grow to be 150 times their birth weight by the time they’re adults compared to about 15 times for (most healthy) humans.