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TIL Bruce Willis starred in the movies Armageddon and The Sixth Sense in part due to a lawsuit with The Walt Disney Company

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wpQJ TIL In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
yQX1J TIL that the Cold War era satellite espionage program, known as Corona, inadvertently tracked the decline of biodiversity in regions that lack historical records.
oVEo TIL John Chambers, the make-up artist portrayed by John Goodman in the movie Argo, not only won the CIA’s Intelligence Medal of Merit for his role in helping rescue American embassy personnel from Iran, he created the pointed ears worn by Leonard Nimoy as Spock in Star Trek.
R7n1a TIL FIFA 14 was released on the PS2, PS3, and PS4. This is the only game whose initial release spans three console generations.
M7Nx0 TIL a volcano caused the creation of Frankenstein. Indonesia's Mt. Tambora erupted in 1815, and the next summer was Europe's coldest on record. Shelley, Byron, & friends were on vacation but had to stay inside, so they came up with scary stories, such as "Frankenstein", and the modern vampire.