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TIL - Onions have more DNA than humans

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v1YVR TIL Lucy Punch, also known as Esme Squalor from A Series of Unfortunate Events, has played an evil stepsister in no fewer than four different versions of Cinderella
0dgbL Today I Learned that "Golden Week" in China is a 7 day holiday where workers receive 4 paid days off between 2 weekends so everyone can travel and visit distant family.
R5jwl TIL Apocalypse Now began script prep in the late 1960s. In 1976, four months into filming, Coppola still hadn’t finished the script and kept delaying Brando’s access to it. He wrote to Brando, asking him to join on set to collaborate on a slow rewrite. Brando and Coppola spent 10 days reshaping it.
9Yb7Q TIL that Human milk contains components that are indigestible to human infants. Instead, these components seem to have evolved specifically to feed important gut bacteria.
X04vP TIL of David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and NBC who suppressed and then stole FM radio and Television from their inventors, driving one to suicide and the other to alcoholism.