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TIL Actress Linda Fiorentino (The Last Seduction, Men in Black) has only made five films since playing a lead character in 1999's Dogma, two of which were direct to video. Fiorentino's last two films were released in 2002 and 2009.

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69NA8 TIL Diophantus of Alexandria, a mathematician from the 3rd century, came up with many mathematical equations that took a long time to solve. The last one, Fermat's Last Theorem, was first stated in 1637 and was proved in 1995 by British mathematician Andrew Wiles.
OGJKY TIL about the medical "interventions," more accurately experiments on "prisoners" in British India for malaria, cholera, typhoid, & plague. In one incident, Muslim prisoners fasting for Ramadan were forcibly given weekly doses of quinine for malaria treatments.
R5dZ4 TIL Alberta, Canada is the only densely populated area in the world without a rat population, thanks to a Rat Control Program that was established in 1950.
gM8R8 TIL the people of North Sentinel Island, often described as uncontacted, were visited extensively in the 1990s. They hunt wild pig, their songs contain two notes, and their only form of art is body painting. Researchers compare them to humans 15,000 years ago.
JYpnv TIL during the vajont disaster, a megatsunami created by a massive landslide that killed about 2000 people, was so strong, the wall of water pushed an air pocket more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, so strong that people's clothes were blown off by the blast before the wave came