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TIL that the 7ft 2in actor who played the Predator and Harry, from Harry and the Henderson’s died from AIDS because of a HIV infected blood transfusion he received from a car accident.

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j6jVX TIL: Roman Emperor Valentinian the Great was one of the most popular emperors due to repelling several invaders, strengthening the borders, and handled the Great Conspiracy in Roman Britain. Unfortunately he died from a stroke while angrily yelling at envoys. Scholars say he got so mad, he died.
8a66G TIL that Veruska Ramirez, a former Miss Universe model from Venezuela, was abducted for 3 hours in 2003. She was released, after she signed some autographs for her captors
PVvg TIL: There is a species of octopus called the Argonaut. The male stores up sperm in his penis/tentacle and when he finds a mate, he tears it off and gives it to her so that she can, quite literally, go fuck herself.
OJM6 TIL the Liters of Light project uses no electricity to illuminate windowless homes in and beyond the Philippines - their solution uses a recycled plastic bottle with some water and bleach yet provides the equivalent output of a 60-watt bulb
kJWd7 TIL about the Lockheed CL-1201, a 1960s design for a nuclear powered, supersonic, flying aircraft carrier. If it had made it to the prototype phase, its wingspan would have been twice as long as any aircraft today.