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TIL Jami Gertz who played Star in 1987s The Lost Boys is currently the world's richest actor with a net worth of $3 billion.

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xVWXk TIL about Bluefields, an English-speaking town in Spanish-speaking Nicaragua, which was named after a Dutch-Jewish pirate, was previously part of the Mosquito (Miskito) Kingdom, and was only connected to the rest of the country by road in 2019
PYYrw Short answer: In principle, yes
YyWd TIL that in the 2010 BP gulf oil spill BP and the US Coast Guard used a “chemical dispirsant” that they claimed broke up the oil. Instead it just sank the oil temporarily, made it 52x more toxic, did nothing to clean it up, and is extremely poisonous. BP knew all of this before using it
7rNyx TIL that there is a job where people trim cow hooves, keeping the cows from going lame and having other issues.
jX5X TIL when you look at a clock, and the second hand seems to freeze for a moment, your brain is actually generating a false memory, and your perception of time stretches slightly backward. This effect is called chronostasis.