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TIL that Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin learned to fence both left- and right-handed and performed all of the fencing in the sword fight scene for The Princess Bride

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XxXE TIL that in front of the Embassy of Japan, there is a statue of a small girl staring at it, representing the comfort women who passed away having waited for true apology from Japan.
9wYRp TIL about the Degenerate Era, where the stars in our universe will run out of fuel, and the starry night sky we see today will no longer exist. Aging stars and stellar remnants will be too cold to support life. It's hypothesized to happen about 1 quintillion years after the Big Bang.
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