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TIL that Sacha Baron Cohen is lined up to play Freddie Mercury in a movie about his life. I am elated. (1:28 long video)

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Brner TIL that Arizona, despite have triple-digit temperatures for six months of the year, is actually one of the most energy efficient States in the US; AZ ranks 45th out of 50 states for per-capita energy consumption (a combination of residential/commercial/industrial/transportation energy consumption).
YZmP TIL that a study from Australia found sniffer dogs produce false positives 80% of the time. “No test which has an 80 per cent error rate could be considered a reasonable basis on which to conduct an intrusive public search of a citizen going about their daily business.”
xVZa0 TIL that there are more people buried in the Catacombs than the entire current population of Paris.
QNymL TIL natural killer cells become stronger to fight cancer cells through laughter
7r08Z TIL if a child's fingertip gets severed off, a new fingertip may regrow.