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TIL Humans and T-Rex are closer in history, than T-Rex and Stegosaurus

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mbmv TIL During Ellen Burstyn’s monologue in Requiem of a Dream about how it feels to be old, Matthew Libatique accidentally let the camera drift off-target. The reason was because he had been crying during the take and fogged up the camera’s eyepiece. This was the take used in the final print.
5WoD TIL an FBI informant investigating corruption in LA jail was transferred to different jails, kept in isolation, held under various aliases, and watched around the clock to prevent FBI handlers from finding him. The corruption included brutality and staging “gladiator style fights” between inmates.
ZB5B TIL that Richard Montañez, Mexican janitor, who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos is now the executive vice president of multicultural sales and community activation for PepsiCo’s North American divisions.
Xak TIL that, although a Rubik’s cube is advertised as having merely billions of permutations, the actual number is 43,252,003,274,489,856,000.
W7G7Y TIL humans do not have 100,000 kilometers of blood vessels, it's more like 9,000-19,000 kilometers