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TIL that the opening scene of Zoolander (the awards ceremony) was actually filmed during the commercial breaks at the real-life 2000 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards.

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6EMd8 Hong Kong-based students, Sum Ming Wong and Kin Pong Li designed a door handle that uses light to always keep itself sterilized. The students were inspired by the SARS outbreak in the 2000s and figured that a self-sanitizing door handle is more effective than the chemical-based cleaning processes we are using right now. The handle is made of a glass tube with aluminum caps at each end and the entire handle is covered in a powdered photocatalytic coating made from a mineral called titanium dioxide. The bacteria is decomposed through a chemical reaction that is activated by UV light reacting with the thin coating on the glass tube.
kwQ1 TIL there is a gigantic water vapor cloud in space that holds 140 Trillion times the water in earths oceans.
neY8G TIL Alexander Twilight was the nation's first African American to earn a bachelor's degree from an American College.
kO1NB TIL that schizophrenic programmer Terry Davis designed a 64-bit operating system that he believes communicates with God.
yGoa TIL that cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev has traveled 0.02 seconds into the future. The theory of relativity states that time will slow down for an object as its velocity increases. By orbiting at 27,360 km/h for 747 days aboard the Mir space station, Avdeyev aged 0.02 seconds less than people on Earth.