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TIL Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall were roommates together in NYC in the 1960s while working as struggling actors.

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E14gp TIL CD/DVD data is contained in the plastic not the shiny part. The shiny part is just so the laser bounces back.
1N7O TIL: The Vietnamese are the biggest consumers of the rhino horn and they received the idea that rhino horn was an aphrodisiac from the western media’s false reporting. There is no known record of its use as an aphrodisiac in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
yQvme TIL in 2015, the waiting time for organ transplants in America decreased for the first time in 25 years — and it's been decreasing ever since. The reason, however, is the massive increase in drug overdose deaths.
GYl01 TIL 62 of the 97 people who were on the Hindenburg when it crashed survived the disaster.
w6nJ TIL malnutrition in North Korea is so common and widespread that it is not even considered a medical condition