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TIL David Schwimmer (Ross from Friends) and Stephen Colbert (US Talk-Show host) were in the same improv group at Northwestern University called "The No-Fun Mud Piranhas".

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jnVR TIL measuring 4086mi^2, the largest salt pan Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is so flat that rain can’t drain, creating the world’s largest natural mirror. It’s also 5x better for satellite calibration than the surface of the ocean, and an elevation measurement accuracy of 0.8 inches
LklDr TIL Offspring of some worm-like amphibians called caecilians allow their young to eat their flesh. The mothers of Boulengerula taitanus create a nutrient-rich fatty outer layer of skin after laying their eggs. When their offspring hatch, the babies scrape this layer off with specialized teeth.
XEMr8 TIL that a university found a white student guilty of racial harassment for reading a book titled Notre Dame vs. the Klan even though the book honored student opposition to the klan when it marched on Notre Dame in 1924.
6pxZ TIL that 120 battle suits representing “grunts, dogs and tanks” weighing up to 130 pounds (59 kg) were handcrafted for Edge of Tomorrow. Each actor needed 4 people to help put on the suits and between takes they would be suspended by chains from iron frames to take the weight off their shoulders.
A47x TIL that gaslighting was used as early as WWII by Nazi Germany as one of the Zersetzung psychological manipulation warfare techniques to destroy and drive political opponents to psychosis and suicide.