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

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MeNja TIL Peter McCathie survived being hit by lightning when he was a teenager and now he’s won the lottery — both events combined come to about a 1 in 2.6 trillion chance.
NJeE TIL there’s a paper by the University of Toronto that outlines the usage and historic context of “eh”
QJkMe TIL That printer companies intentionally design their products to perform ineffectively in an effort to get more money from the consumer.
rRV1w TIL South Africa is the only country in the world that has developed nuclear weapons and then later gave them up
OG4YX TIL modern fruit is becoming too sweet for zoo animals after years of genetic modification.