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TIL Sigourney Weaver made the no-look over the shoulder basketball shot in one take from Alien: Resurrection

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nWvR9 TIL there's another unit to measure temperature, the Rankine scale (°R)
GjQ TIL that when Robert Ballard announced he was mounting a mission to find the Titanic, it was actually a cover story for a classified mission to inspect lost nuclear submarines. They finished before they were due back, so the team spent the extra time at sea looking for the Titanic—and found it.
j6EvN TIL In 1991 two hikers walking through the mountains bordering Italy and Switzerland found a body. Swiss Rangers found it was a 5000-year-old mummy now known as "Ötzi". He is considered the oldest fully complete human found yet.
5VJdk TIL: "Muscle is muscle" is wrong, and there is HUGE variation in what differently adapted muscle fibers can do. Type 2x muscle fibers have 10x more peak power than Type 1 muscle fibers, for example
Ooro4 TIL Michael Jackson was $500 million in debt when he died. However since his death he's made a profit, being one of the highest earning dead celebrities in the world.