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TIL Charlize Theron laughed so hard while watching Borat (2006) at theater that a herniated disk in her neck locked up, and she had to go to the hospital for five days.

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1ar4W TIL about the Phoebus cartel, which in 1925 met in Geneva to curb the longevity of incandescent light bulbs. This is a strategy called "planned obsolescence" to generate repeated sales and maximize profit.
GYLP4 Til in Belgium, and some other countries, it is illegal to wear a mask that covers your face in whole or in part, in such a way as to be unidentifiable.
Lk1X9 The winds at Jupiter’s surface, some of the most powerful in the solar system, influence the planet’s gravitational field, the latest observations show. This means that Jupiter’s signature, crisscrossing bands don’t just exist on the surface of the atmosphere. Jupiter’s wind flows actually extend 3,000 kilometres (about 1,860 miles) below the cloud tops, where the pressure is about 100,000 times that of the atmosphere at Earth’s surface.
neDOd TIL that Albert Baez, the father folk singer Joan Baez, while enrolled at Stanford's doctoral program in physics co-invented (with his doctoral program advisor) the X-ray reflection microscope for examination of living cells. Later in his career he helped develop the x-ray telescope.
6P6w TIL that people only discovered the real shape of the clitoris in 2009