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TIL Heath Ledger directed both of the Joker's hostage videos in The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan wanted the homemade shorts to reflect the sadistic perspective of Ledger's own horrifying Joker, but it was Ledger's impressive work on the first video that convinced Nolan to let him direct the second

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AD7Dl TIL from Paul Stamets “6 ways mushrooms can save the world” TED talk, that mushrooms and mycelium are powerful antibiotic agents with many potential untapped applications in pharmaceuticals, pesticides, terraforming other planets, ecological healing/the reestablishment of biospheres, and much more.
d8Zjd TIL King Gillette, who founded Gillette razors, believed that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls.
P5Ae TIL in 1891, William Coley showed that spontaneous remission of cancer could be induced using toxins which model a bacterial infection. Despite treating over 1000 individuals and curing some patients with end-stage cancer, the last recorded use of this therapy was in China in the 1980s.
59r8 TIL that the name “Pakistan” was devised in 1933 as the acronym for: Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sindh, and BalochiSTAN. Also, in Farsi and Urdu, “Pak” means “clean” and “-stan” means country
lJxV TIL the longest prison sentence ever was given to an Indonesian woman and her associates were given a 141,078 year sentence for fraud .