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TIL Frankie Muniz has memory loss so severe that he can't remember starring in the hit show Malcolm in The Middle and his girlfriend has to keep a journal of their day to day activities to help out.

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BLjr TIL that The Pillars of Creation (as photographed by the Hubble telescope) don’t exist anymore. They were destroyed 1,000 yrs ago by an advancing supernova, but the light takes 7,000 yrs to reach us so they still appear intact.
6lDJ TIL France killed 45,000 Algerian civilians in two weeks in 8th of May 1945 who did nothing but went out to the streets demanding independence that they were promised after WWII
Pd9e TIL The actor who flew “da choppa” away in the last scene of Predator – Kevin Peter Hall – also played the role of The Predator.
dD7Oj TIL about Operation Cottage intended to seize the last enemy stronghold on North American soil from Japanese occupiers in 1943. By the time the island was declared secure, over 300 Allied soldiers lay dead or wounded. There were none Japanese casualties, they abandoned the island 3 weeks prior.
KYwb4 TIL that Santorio Santorio, an Italian Professor, Physician, qnd Physiologist weighed everything he consumed and excreted over a period of 30yrs in the study of Insensible Perspiration or what we know today as metabolism.