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TIL Idris Elba is a DJ

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1amkO TIL that, in one apocryphal story of Voltaire's death at age 83, a Catholic priest counseled him to renounce Satan. He replied, "This is no time to make new enemies."
0wk95 TIL Heath Ledger created a character diary for the Joker. It included stills from A Clockwork Orange, photos of hyenas, unhinged clown makeup and the word "chaos" highlighted in green. It also contained things the Joker would find funny like AIDS, landmines, and geniuses suffering brain damage.
8GrL TIL that six soviet cosmonauts, while working in space on the MIR station, reported to mission control all six of them were seeing aliens with human faces and large wings. Pravda confirmed the report and said that it was a group hallucination.
xVwxD TIL Michigan is one of the safest states from natural disasters as shown by data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
5YgBn TIL the Latin expression 'et cetera' is a word-for-word translation of the earlier Greek phrase 'kai ta hetera' (and the other things). Such a borrowing is called a calque (tracing, close imitation), which is itself a loanword from French.