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TIL that the plot of the film Zoolander was so close to the plot of the Brett Easton Ellis' novel Glamorama that the author was paid an out of court settlement.

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78kRP TIL suicide bombs can result in human shrapnel. Pieces of the bomber become lodged in survivors.
Myr7 TIL that archaeology shows humans living in the Americas long before the formation of the Bering Straight Land Bridge.
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