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TIL that, because of bleaching agents and hairspray, hairdressers are at very high risk of developing lung disease.

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GvDG TIL the actor who played the dying Maurice Fisher in Inception, Pete Postlethwaite, was really dying of cancer. He died 5 months after the film’s release.
yVJWp TIL Earthworms are invasive to North America
kKym TIL that Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, famous meme and ‘Ancient Aliens’ expert, has no academic background in any field relevant to the show. Instead, he holds a bachelor’s degree in sports information and was previously a bodybuilder promoter.
5WWD TIL some very skilled Halo fans got tired of waiting for Microsoft to act and are creating an entire Halo game for the PC from scratch using CryEngine3 that will be released for free
loEaA TIL in 2009 US-Australian astronomers discovered the least windiest place on earth. Ridge A on the Antarctic Plateau is so calm that "the sky there is so much darker and drier, it means that a modestly-sized telescope there would be as powerful as the largest telescopes anywhere else on earth."