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TIL Gary Oldman turned down Edward Scissorhands

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yVZ0J TIL that WHAM-O's Slip N' Slide is not supposed to be used by persons over the age of 12. There have been rare instances (and lawsuits) of adults breaking their necks while using it and in 1993, the U.S. CPSC warned that the slide might cause permanent spinal cord injury to teens and adults.
9YVWp TIL Astronomers have discovered a "zombie" star that went supernova in 1954...then again in 2014. Lead author: "This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work."
VBGE4 TIL scientists have discovered a species of extremophilic nematode in Mono Lake in California called Auanema sp. It lives in a lake with 500x the arsenic concentration we can handle, 3 times as salty as the ocean, and has an alkaline pH of 10. It has 3 sexes, and carries its young like marsupial.
rNAex TIL the first 5-10 minutes of sleep are so light that if you wake someone up in that stage they will deny they were asleep.
DQx1e TIL Tomato sauce (marinara) wasn’t invented until circa 16th century when explorers introduced tomatoes to Europe and southern Italy