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TIL that Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi starred in an episode of X-Files together in 1995.

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OZk1 TIL that to prevent the Nazis from discovering two fellow scientist’s gold Nobel prizes, Niels Bohr had them dissolved in aqua regia. They were then stored on a shelf until after the war, when the gold was extracted and re-cast by the Nobel Foundation
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