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TIL The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile.

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e069E TIL that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, rejected religion, and considered himself a humanist. Around age 14 he concluded that religion was nonsense. According to Ronald D. Moore, Roddenberry "felt very strongly that contemporary Earth religions would be gone by the 23rd century."
p8pnG TIL 70% of U.S. adults who are at least 20 years old are overweight or obese.
X0E48 TIL 250 people in the US have cryogenically preserved their bodies to be revived later.
jyLQ TIL Shirley Henderson, the girl who played 11 year old Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter, was the oldest actor to portray a student, being 37 years old.
5gyB TIL Ray Bradbury wrote a short story where a time traveling safari hunter accidentally crushes a butterfly under his boot in the Cretaceous period, thereby changing the course of history millions of years later. He wrote the story two decades before the term “Butterfly Effect” first came into use.