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TIL cheese has morphine-like compound named casomorphin

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VMjRZ TIL because of the subject of mutiny, 'Crimson Tide' did not receive support from the US Navy but still managed to get actual footage of The USS Alabama. They filmed it when Tony Scott got a tip as to when the Alabama was shipping out and followed it with a yacht and a helicopter for 8 miles.
rNpRe TIL that Pule cheese is the most expensive cheese in the world, made from donkey milk and valued at around $600 per pound.
WMPX TIL Patrick Stewart left his bags unpacked for the first six weeks of filming Star Trek: TNG because he thought the show would fail.
DAZj TIL that there is a rift the size of the Grand Canyon buried under the ice of Antarctica.
GXoJ TIL that Kim Peek, the inspiration for the movie Rain Man, was a savant born with significant brain damage who has read over 12,000 books and remembers everything he’s read in them. He reads two pages at once, one with each eye, and remembers it all.