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TIL the US Government Will Get 10% Royalty On ‘Passion Of The Christ’ Prequel

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nWXgW TIL third-degree burns are not the worst burns; the scale goes up to 6
rRWyW TIL that in Mexico, Belgium, Germany, and Austria, the act of escaping from jail is not illegal in and of itself, because it's human nature to want to escape
Z8Q5p TIL about project Orion, a project to develop a spaceship propelled by nuclear explosions. The project was abandoned due to a treaty that forbid nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water.
KOj5J TIL that Sergei Rachmaninoff's famously massive hands may have come from Marfan's syndrome
0wXA5 TIL about a set of twins that reunited after 37 years in 1979. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents, loved carpentry and math, and pursued careers in security. Even stranger, they had each married a woman named Linda and then remarried a woman named Betty.