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TIL that Dustin Hoffman was originally considered for the lead role in ‘Blade Runner’

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1ajGD TIL that when the Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire the some 200,000 bees that live in the roof were thought to be dead, but in fact they were still alive after the fire.
e0Zm6 TIL that hundreds or thousands of mites - microscopic tiny eight-legged animals - are living in the pores. They are related to spiders or ticks, spend most of their lives in our pores, and while we sleep, they crawl out onto the skin's surface to mate and then head back to lay their eggs.
8p94 TIL there was the Soviet equivalent to Eurovision called the Intervision Song Contest. Because of a lack of phones, viewers would turn lights on or off if they liked or didn’t like the song. According to load experienced on the electrical network, points were granted accordingly to each contestant.
16Gl8 TIL that Roly-Polys or Pill Bugs are terrestrial crustaceans and are more closely related to lobsters, crabs, and shrimps
kOagg TIL that despite of being banned from WW2 military service, Charles Lindbergh's knowledge on fuel efficiency helped double the effective range of the P-38. The pilots he worked with where so grateful they let him sneak on a combat mission where he scored a kill.