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TIL Michael J. Fox’s middle name doesn’t even start with a J.

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9wY6p TIL 'Tainted Love' was originally produced by Gloria Jones
x66Gg TIL Crocodiles and alligators are surviving members of an ancient evolutionary division of Archosaurs that dominated the planet in the late Triassic before an extinction event led to them being usurped by Dinosaurs
KOagw TIL about the Windscale Fire in the UK back in 1957 in which the first civilian Nuclear Power Station built caught on fire causing which eventually resulted in 240 deaths from radiation poisoning.
NXaxE TIL That aerodynamic 'ground effect' means that a fixed wing aircraft can lift off before it reaches its minimum climb speed, in effect 'floating'. For helicopters it means that they have to calculate two take off weights, In Ground Effect (IGE) and Out of Ground Effect (OGE) to ensure safety.
x6B15 TIL a 1995 experiment by Oberholzer et al successfully showed DNA replication inside tiny spherical lipid bilayer structures called liposomes (similar to cell membranes) - mimicing early cellular conditions. Advancing our understanding of how life could have originated.