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TIL 8 % human DNA is made up of ancient viruses that used to infect us

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yVDda TIL the on set feud between Wesley Snipes & director David S. Goyer while filming Blade: Trinity led to Snipes only appearing on set to film close-ups (often completely stoned) & letting his double shoot most of his scenes. And he only communicated with Goyer via Post-it notes, signing them as Blade
KOLMR TIL Queen Victoria was only five feet tall
o758 TIL there is a theatre company that reenacts the last moments of doomed flights by acting out the cockpit voice recordings.
KOvOw TIL Zodiac symbols also correspond to alchemy processes and were part of a larger system of symbols that were used as notation in proto-chemistry formulas in the early modern period
DrMe TIL that in 1960, a man named Joe Kittinger ascended to the edge of space in a balloon’s gondola, parachuted back to earth and set the record for highest freefall