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TIL That the movie Night at the Museum was based on an acid trip one of the authors had (26:49)

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kOn75 TIL South African novelist Bessie Head was born of an illegal union between her white mother (who was placed in a mental asylum during her pregnancy) and black father (who then mysteriously disappeared). Her works reveal empathy with children and women treated as “dead things”
K5ew TIL: considering the natural process of bone properties, development & growth, it’s fundamentally possible for animals to evolve metal skeletons.
JYA94 TIL King Richard the Lionheart of England couldn't speak English and spent very little time in England.
YQNZ TIL that, including the Chernobyl disaster, Nuclear Power is responsible for 0.09 deaths per Terra-watt hour of electricity produced. Coal is responsible for 170 deaths/TWh
awrvo TIL about Yoshio Nakamura. An American Citizen of Japanese decent who was sent to an interment camp during WWII but enlisted in the army and fought in Italy to break the German line. He used his GI bill to earn a degree to become a teacher but school districts wouldn't hire him due to his heritage.