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TIL most Helium on earth is the result of radioactive decay of Uranium and Thorium in the earth’s crust

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4kDow TIL the movie Big Trouble was set to come out on 9/21/2001 and was a comedy movie about smuggling a nuke onto a plane but the movie was postponed til April the next year and the promotion campaign was toned down almost to the point of abandonment. The movie later bombed at the box office.
PYVNV TIL that "blackasses" is a slur used in Russia for people from the Caucasus.
GAYR5 TIL Tommy Davidson, comedian and actor from "In Living Color," was abandoned in a pile of trash at eighteen-months-old. He was rescued and adopted by a white family.
yQyPJ TIL that the Plague of the Middle Ages likeky did not make 10% Europeans resistant to HIV by increasing the frequency of a protective genetic mutation (CCR5-Ä32), scientists DNA tested 4900 year old skeletons and found the mutation was already common in the Bronze Age
gr5jA TIL there was a famous Japanese game show in which diehard baseball fan contestants were locked individually in small rooms for an entire baseball season: if their favorite team won each night they got dinner for the evening, if their team lost the lights would be turned out until the next win.