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TIL, after Rocky IV’s release, a joke was making rounds that since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien in the fifth installment. Screenwriters Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on the joke which became the movie Predator.
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TIL the field of archaeoacoustics looks at the possibility of extracting sound from ancient objects.
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TIL following the suicide of a the famous Korean actor Choi Jin-sil the frequency of suicide in Korea increased by 162,2% for 3 weeks confirming the "Werther effect," that a suicide can cause others to also commit suicide
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TIL an ice cube sized block of Aerogel contains as much surface area as half a football field.
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TIL Band-aids emit a blue flash of light when pulled apart - visible to the human eye when you do it in the dark!