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TIL that many of the props used in the 2009 film ‘District 9’ were reused from a planned Halo movie that fell through.

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oBXYK TIL that Varina Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the US Civil War, was marginalized due to her dark Welsh complexion, eventually became a Yankee, and accidentally became a good friend of the widow of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
4XBl6 TIL that when considering what to name Idaho, a man named George M. Willing suggested Idaho claiming it was an indigenous word meaning "Gem of the Mountains". The name stuck. Afterwards it came out that it wasn't an indigenous word and Willing made it up.
QJaYa TIL Contact lens wearers are younger on average than non-contact lens wearers and younger users are associated with lower contact lens compliance. More than 70,000 children go to the emergency room each year for injuries and complications from medical devices related to contact lenses.
58NP TIL: One litre of oil can contaminate one million litres of water. It’s important to understand that when you dispose oil in sink, it effects a million liters of recyclable water.
KOap9 TIL that the widowed wife of Lee Harvey Oswald (the man who shot JFK), Marina Oswald Porter, is still alive and living in Texas. She still believes that he was innocent of the assassination.