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TIL in 1999, Martin Lawrence almost died from heat exhaustion while jogging in the Big Momma costume. He went into a 3 day coma while having a body temperature of 107 °F

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nWKOr TIL: mRNA was first tested in the 1990s, but a 2005 breakthrough made it stable for medical use.Early attempts failed as mRNA degraded too quickly. In 2005, scientists developed lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to protect it, enabling new medical applications
eA66 TIL Marie Antoinette’s last words were “Pardon me sir, I meant not to do it”, to her executioner, whose foot she had accidentally stepped on after climbing the scaffold to the guillotine. Also, her body was thrown into an unmarked grave.
yVWQp TIL Paramount, the L.A. Times, and an ad firm paid $75,000 to settle negligence claims for a Mission Impossible III promotion which placed digital devices in 4500 news racks. The promotion caused a bomb scare which led to a sheriff's arson squad blowing up one of the news racks in Santa Clarita.
OoKQa TIL About a paper which models the expected "time-to-failure" of potential conspiracies. E.g. if the moon landing was a hoax, the conspiracy would have had to involve 411k people, and thus the model posits that the conspiracy would have been exposed within about 4 years
8agmV TIL Street Fighter's boxer Balrog was originally named Mike Bison (a parody of Mike Tyson), but Capcom was concerned they could get sued. The name was shortened and given instead to the final boss, who became M. Bison.