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TIL that 55 million years ago the North Pole had the climate of today's Miami

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5Ye1Q TIL Anthony Hopkins, when asked what he loves best about making movies, answered: "I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day. Having somebody dab things on your face, I love that. Then you go out and say things and they pay you."
4ge5 TIL there is a “zip bomb” that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
aYVJ TIL The relationship between single-parent families and crime is so strong that controlling for it erases the difference between race and crime and between low income and crime.
GAYp5 TIL the “Father of Soft Play” and inventor of the ball pit, Eric McMilan, was inspired to create safe play areas because he grew up in post-WW2 England, playing in rubble.
Z4kD TIL of James Fallon, a neuroscientist who studies serial killers, discovered a gene making someone pre-disposed to being a serial killer, then discovered that his brain is mapped very similarly to serial killers, he has the gene, and is descended from a long line of serial killers