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TIL that people without light stimulation from the sun (i.e. in a cave) tend to have a 48 hour sleep-wake cycle

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Xg88 TIL Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick Ass) faked a British accent when she auditioned for her role in ‘Hugo’ because she heard that Martin Scorsese was looking to cast a British actress. When she got the part, she had to come clean.
oRyZW TIL "Creature" (also know as "the titan find") 1985, an Aliens inspired horror sci-fi movie, is in the public domain. its early special effects were done by the Skotak brothers, who would go on to make the effects for Aliens (1986).
wBl7 TIL Best Actor Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins, who played the dad in Step Brothers, drove a linen truck before becoming an actor. His boss was John C. Reilly’s father.
ne1lb TIL of Hipólito Bouchard, an Argentine corsair and sailor who in 1818 occupied Monterrey, California for six days, planted a Argentina flag and burned all of the spanish forts leaving all properties of Americans unharmed.
QNXQ9 TIL in 2015, the US Department of Defense accidentally mailed live anthrax to several locations in different states. This happened less than year after the CDC had done the same thing.