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TIL Sigourney Weaver actually made that ‘impossible’ basketball shot in Aliens: Resurrection.

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JYV6v TIL 10 Downing Street is not the residence of the UK Prime Minister, but of the First Lord of the Treasury, an office which is held concurrently with that of Prime Minister.
QNbrE TIL it was said that Frederick the Great had a physical disgust of women. He once shocked a dinner party with an offensive rant against "ghastly women you smelled ten miles around". When he saw his wife for the first time in six years, he only told her: "Madame has become more stout" and then left.
Br41d TIL that when a massive earthquake struck Nepal in April 2015, Nepal’s longest-serving “living goddess” Dhana Kumari was forced to break seclusion and walk the streets for the first time in her life.
5wG9 TIL Spongebob Squarepants is 28 years old.
Z8plB TIL Aseeda is a high-energy food made from millet or cassava eaten at most meals in Darfur where ongoing genocide has had a devastating effect on food and agriculture. Aseeda is often eaten with a stew or curry containing okra