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TIL fans promoting the TV show Supernatural got #LuciferIsComing trending to promote Lucifer’s return, prompting it to be blocked by Twitter following complaints. Actor Misha Collins tried to continue it with #PDiddyIsScaredOfHisTV, which too was blocked.

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kJL4 TIL neurosurgeons call your temples “God’s Little Joke” because its the thinnest parts of your skull, and a major artery runs beneath it
R1Xl TIL James Cameron was stricken with food poisoning and during his illness, Cameron had a nightmare about an invincible robot hitman sent from the future to kill him, giving him the idea for The Terminator, which later catapulted his film career.
JWA4 TIL that any North Koreans that escape to South Korea are automatically granted citizenship upon arrival
d8DWd No one is entirely sure. Water has high surface tension, yet the molecules at its surface are unstable, which makes the air-surface interface mysterious and difficult to describe. Satoshi Nihonyanagi, a researcher at a molecular-spectroscopy lab in Japan, studies water and its surface—"specifically probing the interface," he calls it—using isotopically diluted H2O, which doesn't vibrate and is easier to observe. He's found that some water molecules are bound to others by a single hydrogen bond.
a9lZ TIL in the 70’s the CIA had developed a working nearly traceless heart attack gun. It has contributed to many alleged assassinations and has been subject of many whistleblowers, including Matt Simmons who was exposing BP’s lies.