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TIL during filming of the chestburster scene in Alien, Ridley Scott wasn't getting the reaction he wanted from the cast, so he privately told the SFX team to spray them with an enormous amount of blood during the next take, which caused some of the cast to become physically ill. They used that take.

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0wdAR Possibly. The trees-down (or “arboreal”) hypothesis has been around for many years, says evolutionary biologist Richard O. Prum of Yale University. Researchers guessed that the scales of tree-dwelling Triassic reptiles elongated into feathers, which helped them leap away from predators. Once the proto-birds could glide, they were en route to avian flight. “It was like one big, crazy hairball of ideas all stuck together,” Prum says.
AdlB TIL a ten-year psychological study found that men who kissed their wives before leaving for work lived, on average, five years longer, earning 20 to 30 percent more than peers who left without a kiss.
j5Av TIL The longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare was the siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996)
6EdDW TIL that Anorexia Nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any mental disorder.
8aEK TIL Japanese scientists created a virtually painless needle by studying mosquitoes