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TIL in David Fincher’s thriller Se7en, Kevin Spacey refused billing on the film, fearing that it might compromise the ending if audiences were waiting for him to appear.

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kOVrm TIL in a 2005 NASA study, scientists successfully revived bacteria that had been in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years. The microbes had been frozen since when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. Once the ice melted, they began swimming around, unaffected, and quickly became infectious.
rNADM TIL that the parasite H. zschokkei is the only multicellular organism that does not rely on Oxygen for respiration. It relies on a currently undiscovered energy metabolism to sustain itself.
8DyK TIL of Nzinga, a 17th century queen in Angola who had a harem of men that had to fight to be with her and were put to death after a night of pleasure
nJJB TIL that no Pope has recognized St. Patrick as a Saint
epKK6 TIL Roddie Edmonds was the only American active serviceman to receive the Israeli "Righteous Among the Nations" title for his service during WW2. Edmonds refused to separate out Jewish soldiers when a gun was to his head. Edmonds saved up to 300 lives but never revealed his actions during his life.