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TIL in 2020 global human-made mass exceeded all living biomass

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GPo7 TIL that the idea for Interstellar came from a physicist and a film producer who knew each other from a blind date set up by Carl Sagan
wL9BM TIL that Bridgette Wilson, who played Sonya Blade in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film, was jokingly known as "RoboBabe" on the set because of her insistence that she do her own stunts, including the fight scenes.
Z1jB TIL Sheriff Buford Pusser responded to a burglary call and killed the armed wife of a mob boss; the mob boss exacted revenge by killing the Sheriff’s wife, and the Sheriff hung up his gun and badge to take down the mob all on his own one by one over the next five years in brutal and articulate ways
YolP TIL Bill Paxton is one of only two actors ever to be killed by an Alien, the Terminator, and a Predator
XOMR TIL that the Ichthys symbol (The Jesus Fish) was a pagan symbol of fertility, which included representing the Vulva of Isis.