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TIL 91 people who worked on the 1956 film The Conqueror including Susan Hayward and Agnes Moorehead died from cancer. It may have been caused by radiation because they filmed near nuclear sites.

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a1a9 TIL some whales still have hind-leg bones, likely because they are descendant from land animals that returned to the sea
Jwgj TIL there’s a term for the moments when a word suddenly doesn’t make sense to you and just feels like sounds that don’t have meaning. It’s called Semantic Satiation.
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