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TIL Christopher Walken first trained as a dancer, and has danced in over 50 of his films, also starring in a music video which won a Grammy for Best Music Video of 2002

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8vkb TIL the package that Tom Hanks did not open in “Castaway” contained “a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone” according to Robert Zemeckis
jeja TIL at 90 years old Jeanne Calment sold her apartment and the buyer agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs until she died - she lived to 122!
VMAVk TIL Of all the biting and stinging creatures in Australia, bees and wasps are responsible for more hospital admissions then any others, and caused as many deaths as snakes. Horses killed more than all other venemous creatures combined.
p8KEA TIL there’s evidence that trees communicate via a vast, underground network of fungal connections similar to a brain
j6eLX TIL about the International Geophysical Year, a scientific project that marked the renewal of scientific interchange between the East and West during the Cold War. The first successful artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched for the event.