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TIL: The director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty of raping a 13 year old girl in 1977 but fled the U.S to avoid charges, this is why his 2011 film Carnage staring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly although set in New York was actually filmed in Paris.

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LgGd TIL if you stack every atom in the human body on top of the next, the total length would be roughly 73-Light Years.
4BN TIL that Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) shows up in Christian documents from the Middle Ages and was even canonized as St. Josaphat
j0DQ TIL all captive white tigers can be traced to a single tiger origin. Every white tiger since has been inbred again and again causing major deformities at birth. They are also not a subspecies, thus not endangered, and only kept around to bring in more money.
oRKEA TIL that donated organs are constantly attacked by the recipient’s immune system, which can age them faster, and that immunosuppressive drugs are needed to avoid rejection and infection.
8eMDG TIL in June 2009 the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, said he would announce the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which had been kept safe in Ethiopia. The following day he announced that he would not unveil the Ark after all, but that he could attest to its current status.