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TIL in the quantum universe, the future can cause the past

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Zp8OG TIL about the giant, fully-aquatic and endangered "Scrotum Frog" from Lake Titicaca
8aMPX TIL the woman in the famous "Migrant Mother" photo was Florence Owens Thompson, a Cherokee woman and widow who came from Oklahoma to California with her second husband during the Great Depression. Her 10 children all survived poverty and starvation and later bought her a house. She lived to be 80.
Wao4 TIL Lenny “Luca Brasi” Montana of The Godfather used to be an arsonist for the mob. He’d tie a kerosene-soaked tampon to a mouse’s tail, light it, and set it loose in a building.
LQoRv TIL British rock band The Who was at Shepperton Studios filming a music video and in the adjoining studio, They were shooting the egg room scene from the movie Alien. The Director borrowed the laser from the who to make the effect with the smoke and the laser over the top of the eggs.
pYpe8 TIL an Indo-Greek King called Menander I (Milinda) adopted Buddhism after engaging in a conversation with a holy man, Nagasena, as recorded in the text “Milinda Panha” (Questions of Milinda)