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TIL Bruce Lee’s actual corpse appeared in his final movie, Game of Death. The footage used in the film, which includes close-up shots of the open casket in addition to a shot of his embalmed face, was taken from his funeral in real life.

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XE7Xk TIL The ancient Kingdom of Benin (Edo State, Nigeria) has the largest man-made structure, considered as the largest single archaeological phenomenon on earth. Four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
vAgx TIL: In her 85 years of life, Napoleon Bonaparte’s mother (1750-1836) lived long enough to see the collapse of the French monarchy, the French Revolution, the crowning of her son as Emperor, his death, the collapse of his empire, and the restoration of the monarchy.
MPpm TIL that soldiers use Silly String in Iraq for bomb detection. It travels far enough where a soldier can shoot it across most rooms, and it’s light enough such that if some Silly String lands on the tripwire, it won’t cause the bomb to explode.
QJyde TIL that scientists were able to store an operating system and a film on DNA and recover it without any errors
OGGm7 TIL that roughly 99% of the world's population will be in daylight on July 8th at 7:15am ET. About 6.4 billion people will be in daytime while 1.2 billion will be in twilight.