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TIL Timothee Chalamet (29) is the oldest member of Gen Z this makes him the same Generation as his Wonka costar Calah Lane (15)

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eprMk TIL Notre Dame Football isn't variant of football with different rules called Notre Dame for some reason but NBC coverage of standard college football games involving University of Notre Dame. Disclaimer: I'm not from the US and my knowledge of football ends with knowing what NFL and Super Bowl are.
kNy4 TIL in 1962, two American geologists found that a large rock face above a Peruvian town could collapse during an earthquake. The Peruvian government ordered the two to retract their work or face prison. Eight years later, an earthquake collapsed the rock face, killing 20,000 of the town’s residents.
VMxbG TIL mathematician Milutin Milanković came up with what is now known as the Milanković theory of ice ages in part thanks to having a lot of free time. At the start of WW1 he was imprisoned in Budapest with the right to work for four years.
PyRn TIL that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US
PYdRG TIL that satellites in the 1960s used nuclear radiation for power by radioisotope thermoelectric generators. However, in 1964 such a satellite disintegrated and spread approx. 1 kg of radioactive plutonium-238 over the planet. This failure led NASA to develop solar PV energy technology.