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TIL that Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim is a tribute to the Dune franchise

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MeByK TIL about Lizzie Velásquez, a woman unable to gain weight. The 31yo is a motivational speaker and YouTuber, and she’s never weighed more than 64 lbs due to an extremely rare genetic disorder.
EoKd TIL, Earth’s rotation is gradually slowing. The deceleration is occurring at about 17 milliseconds per 100 years. This will have the effect of lengthening our days, but it’s happening so slowly that it could be as much as 140 million years before the length of a day will have increased to 25 hours.
o4nE TIL that the city of Detroit raised $50,000 in less than 10 days in order to fund the building of a Robocop statue
Qa0e TIL Elvis Presley’s favorite movie was “Monty Python and The Holy Grail”, he would rent out a movie theater to do midnight screenings with his friends.
nWnkr TIL that the film Independence Day (1996) still holds the record for the ‘most miniature model work to appear in one film’. The record is now expected to hold forever due to CGI advances.