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TIL Christopher Walken began dancing at 3 years old, and his first break into the entertainment industry was as a professional dancer... this was showcased in Spike Jonze’s video for Fatboy Slim “Weapon of Choice” (2001).

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4X9rg TIL The family Scapegoat is often the family member who is non-compliant with mistreatment, the whistle blower, expresses displeasure or advocates for their own needs, and is then demonized as the family problem, thereby establishing a ‘false narrative’ of victim blaming.
dwM9 TIL Benjamin Franklin considered fishing “unprovoked murder” and refused to eat them, until he witnessed smaller fish in cod stomachs on a trip to New York, after which he reasoned “ if you eat one another, I don’t see why I mayn’t eat you…”
Bevk TIL that if we had a spacecraft that could “simply” accelerate at a constant 1g (the acceleration rate of free-falling objects due to gravity), then the passengers would be able to travel through the entire KNOWN universe, not merely the observable universe, in just one lifetime.
7rPQp TIL Kurt Russell unknowingly destroyed a priceless 1860s Martin acoustic guitar, on loan from the Martin Museum, in the movie The Hateful Eight. The Martin Museum was so upset about the incident, that they vowed to never loan out guitars for film production again.
nWWXP TIL Glaciers are not the second largest reservoir of water on Earth as previously thought. A 2021 study showed that groundwater is the second largest reservoir of water (at 43.9 million km^3) after Oceans (1.3 billion km^3). Glaciers are a distant third at 158,000 km^3.