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TIL that Nika Futterman, who voiced Asajj Ventress in "Clone Wars" also performed the "Give it to me, baby" lyrics in the Offspring song "Pretty Fly for a White Guy".

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b9AX9 TIL helium can’t be artificially produced and is formed in natural gas wells as ancient uranium decays. The half-life of the most prevalent uranium isotope is billions of years old (older than Earth itself), so helium takes inordinate amounts of time to form.
mxvxp TIL Fritz Haber invented the process for modern agricultural fertilizer thus saving millions of lives from starvation. He also pioneered chemical weapons processes which killed and horribly injured hundreds of thousands during WWI. His wife, son, and grand daughter all committed suicide.
d57 TIL that Judge Doom’s freeway idea in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” was a reference to a real conspiracy in which General Motors bought up trolley car companies in order to replace them with buses.
jNXyX TIL The only NHL season to be cancelled outside of a lockout was in 1919. The Spanish Flu hit the players during the playoff finals and the series was cancelled. Both teams had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup.
pYvNN TIL about the Bechdel test. It tries to measure the representation of women in film/fiction by asking if at least two women talk to each other about something other than a man.