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TIL There is a film that has been in development since 1981, that by 2004 had only 25 minutes of usable footage.

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nepp7 TIL of Joy Milne, a “super-smeller” who found she could smell a unique odor on people with Parkinson's disease years before the onset of symptoms. Scientists then isolated biomarkers in sebum (oily substance from face/back) of Parkinson’s patients, paving the way to earlier detection/treatment.
VNk4 TIL: Some lakes are stocked with fish by dropping hundreds of fish out of an airplane flying over.
awY49 TIL a bunghole is a hole bored in a liquid tight barrel to remove its contents. Uses include the making of beer, wine, and fermented foods.
wKNJ TIL in the 80s, DC’s New Guardians comic featured a villain named the Hemo-Goblin; a white supremacist vampire who drank AIDS-infested blood and bit black people.
JYMPv TIL of all movies to gross a Billion Dollars (not adjusted for inflation) the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score is TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION at 15%; the next lowest is 32%