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TIL There were plans for a sequel to Beverly Hills Ninja with David Hasselhoff replacing the late Chris Farley

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mxE4v TIL witches were never depicted with green skin before the 1939 Wizard of Oz film. Witches were commonly depicted as red or orange beforehand. The Wicked Witch of the West was not described as green in the book, and she was only made green in the film because it looked really good in technicolor.
VBYE0 TIL more than 90% of cigarettes sold worldwide have a filter.These filters are typically made of a plastic called cellulose acetate, and are not biodegradable.
XEOAr TIL gold nanoparticles are showing promise for cancer treatment. Clusters of gold nanoparticles sit on the surface of a cancer cell. When hit with a burst of infrared light, the clusters vaporize nearby water, creating bubbles of vapor that burst and tear apart the cell.
vPOM7 TIL Canada's 2nd Amendment is the transferring control of Prince Rupert's Land to Canada from Hudson Bay Company
W7wxL TIL about the berserker hypothesis, a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox stating the reason why we haven't found other sentient species yet is because those species have been wiped out by self-replicating "berserker" probes.