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TIL that Carrie Henn as Newt in James Cameron's Aliens (1986) was chosen out of 500 children. Although she had no previous acting experience, she received a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. It is her only credited acting role as she opted not to pursue an acting career

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Q0re TIL in Qatar homosexual acts between adult females are legal whereas homosexual acts between adult males are illegal.
0wLVA TIL that Napoleon has a theorem named after him in geometry. It states that,"if equilateral triangles are constructed on the sides of any triangle, either all outward or all inward, the lines connecting the centres of those equilateral triangles themselves form an equilateral triangle.
nWo0B TIL: The Artic Circle and Antarctica are named for Arktos (Greek for Bear) Antarctic = No Bears. While there are no polar bears in Antarctica, the "Bears" in question are Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (which contains the North Star) - Neither constellation is visible from Antarctica (i.e. NoBears land)
69L4w TIL that Gaddafi sponsored financially struggling German ice hockey team, to promote his Green Book on their jersey. It was dropped soon after because of backlash.
J1rRv TIL North Korea is ranked highest in the world in terms of the percentage of population in slavery, with 10.4 percent (2,696,000 ppl) enslaved as per the Walk Free Foundation's 2018 Global Slavery Index. NK is the only country in the world that has not explicitly criminalized any form of slavery.