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TIL Space is not cold but has no temperature. A person in space without a spacesuit would not feel cold at first because heat transfer cannot occur as rapidly in space.

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D1AGv TIL that while filming ”The Wire”, Andre Royo, who played Bubbles, a drug addict, was approached by a Baltimore resident who handed him a package of heroin and said he looked like he needed a fix. Royo calls this his "street Oscar."
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