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TIL Heath Ledger’s portrayal of “The Joker” scared Michael Cain so much, he forgot his lines.

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xr11 TIL that in French, Catalan or in Occitan, “cul-de-sac” literally means “ass of a bag”. J. R. R. Tolkien used the name Bag End as a literal translation of “cul-de-sac”, to poke fun at the British use of French terms.
a86eN TIL there is an artificial island in Maldives called Thilafushi, which was created as a landfill to help with the waste from the capital city Malé. This dumpsite has been neglected and abandoned for the last three decades and it is now just starting to see positive changes.
edQL TIL that someone survived a cardiac arrest and 2 hours and 45 min of CPR thanks to the help of bystanders and an automatic chest-compression system.
KXoJ TIL the sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind have ever used within human existance.
yQNdp TIL in 1998, during a soccer game in the DR Congo a lightning strike killed all 11 members of a soccer team while everyone on the opposing team survived unscathed.