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TIL Damon Wayans was a guest star in the shows Happy Together (episode title, "Like Father, Like Son" and Happy Endings (episode title, "Like Father, Like Gun"), both times playing the father of his real son, Damon Wayans Jr.

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wLmJE TIL "The China Syndrome", a 1979 movie about a nuclear power plant disaster, was dismissed by the nuclear power industry as being "sheer fiction". Twelve days after the film was released, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station experienced a partial meltdown.
ZpwgD TIL there is an Iraqi bellydance called Kawliya which involves flipping the hair and rolling the head in a manner reminiscent of a heavy metal fan at a concert. Kawliya used to be considered a disgraceful dance but is now very popular with Iraqi women who like to dance this way at social events...
xVbVw TIL adding a small amount of seaweed to a cow's diet, can decrease the amount of methane they produce by nearly 60%
6E9ll if the Sun were 'shut off', Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 27 °C / 81 °F. This means in two months the temperature would drop to -123 °C / -190 °F, and -189 °C / -324 °F in four months. So basically except some bacteria seem to be capable of surviving at extremely cold temperatures in space, we humans would die pretty quickly.
p8Ma4 TIL bacon ice cream started as a joke in a 1973 Two Ronnie's sketch and was later made for real in 1982 as an April Fools joke. By 2005 however, chef Heston Blumenthal would be serving bacon ice cream at his 3 Michelin star restaurant, the Fat Duck - the #1 restaurant in the world at the time.