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TIL Katie Holmes chose to do Mad Money w/ Queen Latifah instead of reprising her role as Rachel in The Dark Knight.

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PYP9g TIL Lightning storms can make it rain diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter
Qg8d TIL Adam Rainer is the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant. He was 4 ft tall at age 18, and 7 ft 8 at the time of his death at age 50.
69g5W TIL in 1942, the city Winnipeg, Manitoba was mock-occupied by mock-Nazis, part of a campaign known as "If Day" to sell war bonds
4VoJ TIL:The phrase “In the Limelight” actually comes from the theater spot lights that used a torch to burn quicklime.
x6yLD TIL that only about 20% of homes in the UK are completely detached with zero shared walls, whereas, almost 85% of homes in the US are detached.