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TIL Kirsten Dunst made a video for a cover of 'Turning Japanese' in 2009

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XEOeP TIL snake oil was introduced to the US by Chinese laborers who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad. Derived from the Chinese water snake, snake oil was rich in the omega-3 acids that help reduce inflammation and was quite effective, especially when used to treat arthritis and bursitis.
9jgB TIL while directing Jurassic Park, when Spielberg saw CGI of T. rex, he said to stop motion animator Phil Tippett , “You’re out of a job,” to which Tippett replied, “Don’t you mean extinct?”. Spielberg later incorporated this dialogue into the movie
GYl81 TIL of Senator Birch Bayh, the only person since the Founding Fathers to have authored two Constitutional amendments.
VLW4 TIL police departments have fake mobile towers, often called a “Stingray”. These devices act as a fake cell tower, which tricks nearby phones into connecting to it and feeding data to the police.
E7xW TIL that in 67 AD, Roman Emperor Nero was in such deep mourning over the death of his late wife Poppaea Sabina that he castrated and married a young man who bore an uncanny resemblance to her and even started calling him by his late wife’s name.