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TIL Marquis de Lafayette was buried in Paris with dirt from Bunker Hill battlefield

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Qmne TIL that in Raiders of the Lost Ark, they limited the onscreen blood from gun shots during the truck chase by using fine red dust instead of liquid fake blood. Unfortunately, the only red dust available for the squibs was Cayenne Pepper, which caused a lot of suffering for the stunt crew.
19O7 TIL that despite elephants massive size compared to humans, they are 5 times less likely to die of cancer due to them having at least 40 copies of TP53, a gene that destroys cancer cells before they become a problem, versus 2 in humans.
4X6QN TIL the most difficult word to translate is 'ilunga'. It means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".
Me6MW TIL Rep. John Lewis co-wrote March, an award-winning graphic novel trilogy about the civil rights movement
1a9kV TIL: Orson Welles almost always wore a fake nose — he thought his own was too small and dainty and lacked character.