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LQWAp TIL Tom Cruise ended his marriages with Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes when they each turned 33. Additionally, each ex-wife was 11 years younger than the previous one.
l77oa TIL that is is feasibly possible to get pregnant a second time while currently pregnant
XVd6 TIL Stephen Hawking’s wife cheated on him with a guy in her church choir then Hawking left her for his nurse/ the ex-wife of the guy who designed his voice box.
78kvx TIL that contrary to popular belief, the "petrified bodies" from Pompeii are not actually bodies at all; they are actually plaster casts that have been made by filling the empty space left by decomposed remains that deteriorated in the ash. Over 100 casts have been made since 1863
aw0JJ TIL during the manhattan project Albert Stevens was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or explicit consent. He survived over 20 years, accumulating a total radiation dose of 64 Sv - the highest known in any human being.