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TIL Queen’s guitarist, Brian May, has a PhD in Astrophysics.

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kO8Xg TIL that besides Chernobyl and Fukushima, there was a Soviet nuclear disaster that happened on 1957. The Kyshtym Disaster. Death toll is estimated to be at 50 to more than 8,000. The CIA knew about it but covered it up to prevent panic affecting their own nuclear plants.
v1VpB TIL Episode 122 of The Twilight Zone, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, was a French film short that had won awards at the Cannes Film Festival in 1962 and an Oscar for Live Action Short Film in 1963. Producers paid $25,000 for rights that limited them to airing the story no more than two times.
grrVD TIL about the "Ancient Spanish Monastery" in Miami, a monastery built in 1141 AD in Europe, imported piece-by-piece into the U.S. in 1925 by media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, making it the oldest European building in the Western Hemisphere.
GYDxj TIL that Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, later established a charity organization called the "Himalayan Trust". It is designed to help the Sherpa people living in Nepal.
XkRE TIL that The Riddler almost became the primary villain in The Dark Knight Rises. He would’ve been played by Leonardo DiCaprio