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TIL Rooney Mara had her nipples pierced for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and kept them in anticipation of a sequel (which I’m still waiting for…)

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Wk79o From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy, algae has been touted as a green energy miracle. So if our waterways are already filled with the stuff, why isn’t it filling the world’s skies with biofueled planes? Algae is a tricky creature that presents a lot of challenges and misconceptions. Here’s why it’s difficult to harness—and why it could big a big payoff.
m1XAv TIL It is illegal to be drunk in a Pub in the UK.
v1jR4 TIL the Greek Titan Atlas was condemned to hold up the sky, not the Earth. The sphere he holds is the celestial sphere, not the globe
xpK0 TIL that melittin, a toxin found in bee venom, physically destroys the HIV virus while leaving body cells unharmed.
QJdPM TIL the term apophenia is the perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things. Apophenia can be a normal phenomenon or an abnormal one, as in paranoid schizophrenia when the patient sees ominous patterns where there are none.