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TIL that the destruction of Hiroshima was caused by only half a gram of matter being converted to energy: the weight of a butterfly

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X0Xrr TIL that the real name of the actor we all know as Boris Karloff - famous for playing Frankenstein's monster (his 82nd role by the way!) - was William Henry Pratt, and he elected to act under a pseudonym so as not to embarass his well known, well connected and almost aristocratic English family.
yQ8ye TIL riding roller coasters can help people pass kidney stones. Sitting in the rear proved to be most effective at increasing passage rates
ADgjx TIL John Rhys-Davies, who plays Gimli in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ lost the top of his middle finger as a kid and had special prosthetic made. He played a prank on Peter Jackson where he cut off the tip of the prosthetic, covered it with blood, walked up to Peter and said, “Boss, I had an accident.”
XE8RP TIL that actress Jane Wyman - President Ronald Reagan's first wife - starred on the popular primetime soap opera Falcon Crest from 1981 to 1990 - nearly matching her ex-husband's presidency (1981-1989).
krOd TIL that after the Civil War many wealthy Confederate families fled to Brazil, today many Southern cultures and traditions can still be seen in the descendants of these “Confederados”