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TIL Hugh Laurie shot his audition tape for House from a bathroom in Namibia because that was the only room with enough light.

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5VXMn TIL Approximately 73 to 100 million sharks are killed annually worldwide just for their fins. Primarily driven by the demand for shark fins as an ingredient of a status symbol soup.
jVla TIL Social Media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the web
rEBe TIL that US interrogators tortured an Afghan detainee to death by hanging him by his arms for 4 days and beating his legs so badly they needed amputation. They did this despite most interrogators believing him to be “an innocent man who simply drove his taxi past the American base at the wrong time”
YOjW TIL there was a woman in 1972 who possessed a visual acuity 20 times better than average. She could identify people at a distance of more than a mile (1.6 km).
DZxr TIL A study at UT Austin determined that accepting a job below one’s skill level can adversely affect future employment prospects