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TIL radiological technologist Paul Bateson inspired William Friedkin to include a medical procedure in The Exorcist which Bateson performed in the film. Bateson, active in the gay leather scene, later committed a murder and was linked to a series of murders, inspiring Friedkin to make Cruising

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a08L TIL that Cheryl Bentov, the woman who seduced Mordechai Vanunu into going with her to Italy where he was subsequently kidnapped, transported to Israel to face a secret trial and sentenced to 18 years in prison, works as a real estate agent in Longwood, Florida.
ajP0 TIL one gallon (about 4 liters) of gasoline contains about 31,000,000 calories
ZpoJY TIL scientists are debating whether to stop or tightly control research on “mirror life” — life built from reversed molecules that don’t exist in nature.
woZYY TIL, in the January 1982 California floods, more than 18,000 landslides swept through the SF Bay Area killing 33 and causing $280 million in damages.
v1v4D TIL that Mount Everest is not the tallest mountain on Earth if measured from base to summit (Mauna Kea in Hawaii is). Mount Everest is only the "tallest" in terms of summit altitude above sea level.