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TIL "Cityspeak", the pidgin street language incorporating Japanese/Spanish/German/etc.. used in Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049 wasn't in Philip K. Dick's book, but was actually devised by "Gaff" actor Edward James Olmos while researching his character for the film.

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awLVJ TIL That in 2017, the Turkish State destroyed a Cemetery of Kurdish Fighters, dug up the remains of 282 of them, and had them "reburied" in plastic boxes on top of each other under a pavement at a Jewish Cemetery in Istanbul in a section for the nameless, far away from their relatives.
XEvWj TIL Elvis Presley probably died of constipation. He died in 1977, while straining on the stool. The autopsy showed Presley had an enlarged "megacolon," horribly impacted with clay like material from a barium X-ray procedure that the King went through four months earlier.
VBwDQ TIL Bruce Willis put out two albums back in the 80’s. One of his most played tracks is a cover of Under the Boardwalk.
D1MkY TIL about tetramethyl orthosilicate, a substance that reacts with water to create silica and methanol. It's vapor can blind you and give you respiratory problems by creating silica crystals in your eyes and lungs.
JYl7l TIL people from slavic countries such as Poland, Bulgaria, and Ukraine have genetically shallower hip sockets. Colloquially known as "Dalmatian hip" among hip surgeons, this hip structure helps facilitate a deeper squat. The "slav squat" may have a biomechanical basis.