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TIL that in J.J. Abram’s 2009 Star Trek, R2-D2 can be seen floating in the debris field of the starships destroyed by Nero.

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b6Mvj TIL that for decades, radiotherapy patients had reported phenomena such as "flashes of bright or blue light" when receiving radiation for brain cancer. This was confirmed to be Cherenkov light being generated in the fluids of the eye by researchers in 2019.
0dPxN TIL That the average height of the Danish national handball Olympic gold winning team is 195 cm or 6'4"
6YeX TIL Swedish Navy detected underwater sounds suspected to be hostile Russian submarines in the 80s. The suspicion escalated to a diplomatic conflict between Sweden and Russia. It turned out later that these sounds came from fish farts, a discovery which led to the Ig Nobel Prize.
rNyJ0 TIL Ultrasound images in the 1970s couldn't do much besides predict how many kids a mother could expect. There had to be a reason for ultrasound and not everyone who did it received a copy of the test
kJ51g TIL there are several different categories to drowning and 90% of deaths from drowning involve a relatively small amount of liquid.