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TIL That the person who played the original alien in the film Alien (1979) was a Nigerian by the name of Bolaji Badejo and he stood at a whopping 7'2"

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4XrA6 TIL Newton Minow, then FCC chairman, called television a "vast wasteland" in 1961. In his "honor", Sherwood Schwartz named the ship on Gilligan's Island after him in 1964. Minow is still alive at 94.
xNng TIL: California was building a desalination plant (makes ocean water drinkable) during a 7 year drought but stopped when it started raining again.
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