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TIL Eddie Redmayne spent four months researching Stephen Hawking before playing him on-screen when he was forced to sit in a wheelchair for hours, which made it hard to breathe. He watched every single documentary and YouTube video of Hawking and visited a neurology clinic in London every two weeks

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6EpNY TIL about Yokai. Japanese folklore from the 8th century that gave birth to modern Japanese entertainment like Manga and anime.
1651D TIL contrary to popular belief, INXS frontman Michael Hutchence didn’t die by autoerotic asphyxiation. The rumour was started by his partner Paula Yates, who while grief-stricken, was unable to accept the fact that Hutchence took his own life. The coroner also confirmed that Michael died by suicide.
7daM TIL that after a 1946 plane crash, Howard Hughes decided he did not like the design of the hospital bed he was laying in. He called in his engineers and had them design a new bed that would allow someone with severe burns to move freely. It became the prototype for the modern hospital bed.
w6QW TIL the dark history of bananas. In an effort to preserve “United Fruit Company’s” monopoly on bananas, the U.S. Government removed the democratically elected president of Guatemala in secret by faking a radio station that reported a fake military invasion of Guatemala.
WoDo TIL that in 1978 a physicist was hit in the head by a particle accelerator beam. He survived, finished his PhD, and is still alive today.