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TIL that Terminator and Aliens actor Michael Biehn was in the running to play the lead role in Tim Burton’s Batman

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R8dl TIL: There’s an 2,000 year-old analog computer called the Antikythera mechanism
QNaMa TIL: That the Beijing Weather Modification Office were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics were free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.
5gwQ TIL That Nestle’s CEO thinks the view that water is a basic human right is ‘extreme’
8ao6G TIL Kazakhstan is the world’s top uranium producer, accounting for around 40% of global supplies estimated at 50,000 tonnes a year
d8Gd TIL meteorites that fell on the early Earth brought reduced phosphorus to the planet. This allowed oxidation to phosphates, thus providing a mechanism for the generation of DNA and RNA.