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TIL Zoe Saldana is the only person to appear in 2 movies making $2 billion or more in the box office.

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OoML6 TIL 'Amor fati' describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not.
NXdb6 TIL the US-Canada border is the longest international border in the world, and that Alaska's portion alone is about 38%.
PGyV TIL that in 2011 a 75 year old Georgian woman cut off internet access to the whole of Armenia when she severed a single cable while digging with a shovel
0m7v TIL Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski saved 8,000 Jews during the Holocaust by injecting dead typhus cells into them, allowing them to test positive for typhus despite being healthy. Germans were afraid of the highly contagious disease and refused to deport them to concentration camps.
R7Abj TIL the First and Second officers on Titanic interpreted the evacuation order differently. Murdoch took it as women and children first while Lightoller took it as women and children only. As a result only 20% men were saved in comparison to 74% women and 52% children.