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TIL Bill Paxton is one of only two actors ever to be killed by an Alien, the Terminator, and a Predator

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4kggw TIL that percent of women receiving computer science degrees in the United States has dropped by half since the 1980s.
BrZND TIL Frank Zappa's 1969 album Hot Rats was one of the first albums to use a 16 track recorder, and among the first to record drums on multiple tracks, giving stereo drums, all of which helped achieve outstanding technical quality.
R78jw TIL: Lydia Fairchild failed a maternity test because her reproductive cells had a completely different set of DNA to her skin cells. She exhibits chimerism, in having two distinct populations of DNA among the cells of her body.
9YBvB TIL of the 2008 Universal Studios fire. The fire burned for 12 hours and destroyed many artists original master recordings including: 50 Cent, Louis Armstrong, Blink-182, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Common, the Eagles, Eminem, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, and Martin Luther King Jr., and hundreds more
JYaOB TIL The WD-40 formula is not patented. If it were, the makers would have to disclose its ingredients, making it easier to copy.