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TIL Sissy Spacek funded the early David Lynch

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5OOk TIL - An apparently mentally ill Roman Catholic priest has regularly interrupted sporting events by running onto the track with signs about the impending apocalypse. He may have cost a Brazilian runner his Olympic Gold Medal. He was finally defrocked in 2005.
0WDp TIL when Einstein famously said “God does not play dice” when he was disenchanted by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, Niels Bohr replied: “Stop Telling God what to do.”
b9654 TIL Nearly 8% of the human genome is virus DNA. Meaning some of our ancestors survived a virus but still carry the DNA it inserted.
Ra59 TIL that even though the Dalai Lama can’t swim, his greatest fear is being eaten by a shark
VMQ8Q TIL that composer John Williams has been nominated for 51 Academy Awards (winning 5) second only to Walt Disney who has 59. Williams has been nominated in six different decades, receiving his first for Valley of the Dolls in 1968 and his last for Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2018.