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Today I learned birds are also reptiles

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v1QLB TIL that while the human body contains only 250g of ATP at any one time, more is created and used continuously such that we turn over more than our weights worth of it each day.
gmX7 TIL that the entire LOTR trilogy, all Star Wars movies and all but one of the Harry Potter films fail the Bechdel Test, which tests for three requirements: 1. Two named female characters. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something other than a man.
VMgP4 TIL the nurse being kissed by the sailor in the iconic V-J photo went unidentified for 20 years, when she self-identified and explained she "had stepped outside to see what the commotion was when I suddenly found myself in a sailor's embrace." The two had never met, and the photo was caught by luck.
R7RAj TIL The fake cocaine actors snort on film is vitamin B powder, a common cutting agent for real cocaine.
kJVJB TIL there is a massive abandoned underground command network throughout the former Yugoslavia. One of these was the NORAD equivalent.