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TIL The number of dangerously radioactive sheep in Norway has hit the lowest level recorded since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster

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YdJd TIL the actor in the 1980 movie Airplane! that played the outlandish, flamboyant air traffic controller…was actually one of the first actors to publicly suffer from HIV and die as a result of AIDS in 1986 at age 38.
XERvr TIL that Smaug the dragon originally had 4 legs in the first Hobbit movie but was changed to having 2 legs and 2 wing-arms in the second Hobbit movie.
LkM6Q TIL that former Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff Baxter is also a missile defense consultant for the United States government
xJog TIL: Ernest Rutherford once said, “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
x6byk TIL that Apollo 8 astronauts Jim Lovell and William Anders are the earliest living recipients of Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" award, having been selected by the magazine for its 1968 issue