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TIL that Tim Russ, who played Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager also played the Spaceballs trooper that said, “We ain’t found shit!”

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jlWN TIL Lin Zhao’s parents learnt their daughter was executed on 1968 only after a Communist Party official asked them to pay the five-cent fee for the bullet used to kill her
9YP1G TIL that the in The Sandlot, the guy who played the grown up version of Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, and who stole home for the Dodgers, is the real-life older brother of the kid who played Benny.
9wlNX TIL Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions in the atmosphere, like rivers in the sky, that transport massive amounts of water vapor from of the tropics roughly equivalent to the average flow of water at the mouth of the Mississippi River. They can unleash heavy rain and cause severe flooding.
DJRY TIL that in weight loss, ~84 percent of the fat that is lost turns into carbon dioxide and leaves the body through the lungs
DDYP TIL A doctor named Haing S. Ngor survived the Cambodian Genocide by concealing his education, profession, and the fact he wore glasses. With no acting experience, he went on to star in The Killing Fields and won an Oscar. He was murdered in 1996 for reasons that are still unclear.