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TIL that the new Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot, did all of her own stunts in the Fast and Furious movies, and was casted at least in part because she served as a combat instructor throughout her two-year service in the Israeli Defense Forces, and director Justin Lin wanted to use her knowledge of weapons.

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xyvD TIL that Michael Morton spent 25 years of a life sentence in prison for the murder of his wife. Finally after years of fighting for the rights to a DNA test on a bloody bandana found at the scene, he was exonerated by DNA evidence linking a known felon to the murder.
AL5n TIL there’s a mystery soda machine in Seattle that no one knows who stocks and sells them for 75¢ a pop. And it also has a mystery button that dispenses random and sometimes obscure sodas.
VoNB TIL that cheetahs were almost wiped out by the last ice-age, and all modern cheetahs are descended from a small portion of the surviving cats that interbred to maintain their species. Because of this, cheetahs are practically genetic clones of one another.
OJ07 TIL that fact, theory, hypothesis, and proof are all distinct scientific concepts and that a theory cannot, under any circumstances, be “upgraded” into a law.
d8NnZ TIL blood pressure has a daily pattern with its highest point usually in the afternoon and the lowest point at night.