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AD8ZB TIL Martin Luther King personally talked Lt Uhura out of quitting Star Trek because he thought her role was so important
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jV6X TIL Your brain is 40-60% fat, which gives it buoyancy to float in the surrounding cerebral fluid. Without this, your brain would be crushed under its own weight.