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TIL Barbara Bach who was Russian agent XXX the main Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me, auditioned for Charlie's Angels prompting them to ask her manager if she could play an American. Bach was born in Queens, New York

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7P9Z TIL Surgeon John Liston amputated a leg in under 21⁄2 minutes. He also cut off the fingers of his assistant; both died from gangrene. He also slashed the coat tails of a spectator, who was so scared the knife had pierced his vitals he died from fright. The only operation with a 300% mortality rate.
8adk8 TIL that the 9/11 Memorial's brass panels - on which victims' names are inscribed - have their own heating and cooling systems so that they are never too hot or cold to touch
neZKP TIL of the "first night effect". During the first night in unfamiliar surroundings the left side of the brain stays awake and the right ear, which is connected to the left side of the brain, remains more alert to unusual sounds.
WkZ0o TIL that, in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences found only DNA analysis could rigorously and consistently match evidence to a single person/source with high confidence. Other methods, especially pattern matching (fingerprints, handwriting, bite marks, footprints, hair, fibers, etc.), could not.
Xg0E TIL that in 1950 a church in Beatrice, Nebraska exploded five minutes after choir practice was supposed to start but no one was hurt because every single member of the choir was late for entirely different reasons. And my grandmother was one of them.