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TIL It's National Do Nothing Day. A day to not celebrate, observe or honor anything

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DQ01Y TIL Nick Cave, the musician, wrote a draft script for Gladiator 2 in which Maximus is resurrected for eternity; sent to kill Jesus Christ and his disciples; fights in the Crusades, World War II, and Vietnam; and works at the Pentagon in the present day. The script was rejected and scrapped.
LJQd TIL That obsidian knives are so sharp they cut on a cellular level. Due to this, when used in the medical field, incisions made with the blade heal faster with less scarring.
XmZj TIL when you get blackout drunk you don’t actually forget anything. Your brain wasn’t “recording” in the first place.
xV4X1 TIL that even though bigger animals have more cells (more cells=more mutations), they aren't more susceptible to cancer. It's called Peto's Paradox.
E15a0 TIL for a period in the early 1970s the North Korean GDP per capita was higher than the South Korean one.