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TIL The quote “I reject your reality and substitute my own!” though it owes its current popularity to Adam Savage of Mythbusters, originally comes from a 1974 episode of Dr. Who

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epPwD TIL there is an inmate on Texas’ Death Row called William George Davis. He was a former nurse, who was sentenced for killing 4 people by injecting air into their arterial systems. He supposedly did this to extend the patients time in the ICU letting him earn more overtime pay.
EgYE7 TIL Leni Riefenstahl, Nazi propagandist and good friend of Hitler, was the first foreigner to be granted Sudanese citizenship due to her services to the country after she tried to make a documentary about Sudanese culture
X0GVr TIL certain East Asian physical traits, like thicker hair, more sweat glands, distinct teeth, and smaller breasts, stem from a gene mutation about 35,000 years ago. Africans and Europeans usually carry the ancestral version of the gene, but in most East Asians, one of the DNA units has mutated.
N71J1 TIL the Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna, Italy, was built in 520 AD with stones sourced from a quarry in Istria, approximately 400 kilometres (249 mi) away by land journey. The mausoleum's roof consists of a single Istrian carved stone 10 metres (33 ft) in diameter weighing 230 tonnes
Ooa6X TIL After the filming of Rush Hour 2, the prop money was so accurate that movie extras tried to pass it off as real on the Strip. The Secret Service then had to confiscate $100 Million worth of prop money and accused the prop money manufacturer - Independent Studio Services - of counterfeiting.