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TIL in the novel “No Country for Old Men” a San Antonio judge is mentioned being shot and killed. The judge was murdered by Woody Harrelson’s father; Harrelson would go onto play “Carson Wells” in the 2007 film adaptation

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D1MMV TIL a starfish does not have the capacity to plan its actions. If one arm detects an attractive odor, it becomes dominant and temporarily over-rides the other arms to initiate movement towards the prey.
R7Xx6 TIL Tony Bennett first ‘met’ his wife Susan Benedetto while she was in the womb. In 1966, her parents met the singer backstage to pose for a picture him whilst her mother was pregnant with her. Bennett said “It’s a photo we all laugh about, knowing the incredible turn of events that followed.”
oBYB7 TIL that Nick Newton, the inventor of the starting block, had no athletic experience and was a heavy smoker until his forties. After his daughter became involved in track, he became a Masters sprinter and set records even after surviving testicular cancer
6EJAw TIL that real dead bodies were to be used on the set of 'Apocalypse Now' to provide authenticity; their supplier, who also provided supplies to medical schools for autopsies, was a grave robber
rNLld TIL about the gravastar an object hypothesized in a 2006 paper by Pawel O. Mazur and Emil Mottola as an alternative to the black hole theory. It has the usual black hole metric outside of the horizon, but de Sitter metric inside. on the horizon there is a thin shell of matter.