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TIL Patrick Stewart had no idea who Sting was and never heard his music before making Dune

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ANV0w TIL A rhino’s “horn” is not a true horn, with a bony supporting core like the horns of cattle or antelopes. It is, instead, an outgrowth of the skin, like human hair or fingernails.
64jZ TIL after X-raying a prayer book from the 13th century scientists discovered the pages had readable traces of an unknown work by Archimedes. The remarkable work book contained treatises on infinity written 2,000 years before anyone else thought up the concept.
vyEL TIL there are at least 15 countries with absolutely no military forces
0w0xM TIL that in 1966 a US Air Force B-52 bomber and a USAF tanker collided in midair, and the 4 nuclear bombs the B-52 carried fell into Southeast Spain. One of the bombs detonated, scattering plutonium all over the countryside.
95a7 TIL The Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Was Executed by ISIS