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TIL The movie Biodome was loosely based on a real Biodome

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Xkg6 TIL Hans Staininge, a 1500s man with a 4.5 foot beard died tripping over his beard, breaking his neck running from a fire. The beard was removed and is now on display in Braunau, Germany.
X1oE TIL Cary Grant said LSD achieved what yoga and meditation could not. Bonus: he sued Chevy Chase for slander
X0g1E TIL the number of Indian seamen employed on UK ships was so great that the British tried to restrict this by the Navigation Acts in force from 1660, which required that 75 percent of the crew of a British-registered ship importing goods from Asia had to be British.
rN644 TIL passing high frequency sound waves through a liquid results in the formation of imploding microscopic bubbles that can be used to clean the inside of submerged objects in a process known as an ultrasonic bath