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TIL Nicolas Cage is Francis Ford Coppola's nephew

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mxeDY TIL In 1992, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry suggested the idea of a Star Trek sitcom featuring Lwaxana Troi
JYAlQ TIL cats can fit through small spaces because they have no collarbones. Essentially, any given space that can fit the cat's head, is big enough for the cat's entire body to fit.
4k6LJ TIL: Per vehicle miles traveled in 2020, motorcyclist fatalities occurred nearly 28 times more frequently than passenger car occupant fatalities in traffic crashes.
b0PN TIL that, at the embryonic stage of development, humans have two hearts. They eventually fuse into one but, theoretically, if they were kept separated they would develop into two functional hearts.
Me7r7 Unpredictable extremes of weather could be a huge problem. Simon N. Gosling, a geographer at the University of Nottingham in England, and Robert E. Davis of the University of Virginia agree that hotter weather on average isn't as dangerous as unexpected weather. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April looked at how temperature fluctuations over a single summer affect mortality in vulnerable populations.