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TIL Eve Ensler of “The Vagina Monologues” was on-set advisor for Mad Max: Fury Road.

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9wJ5X TIL darker skin people need more sunlight to make vitamin D. One experiment where a light skinned person was in sunlight for 8 hours saw their vitamin D concentration go up by 50x while a dark skinned person saw no change. They needed 5-10 times the sunlight length and then only saw a 30x change.
nW4Ed TIL that in addition to Red Cross organizations, there are also Red Crescent and Red Crystal organizations, with the symbols localized for acceptance by the community of each nation that has such an organization. In the past there was also a Red Lion and Sun (Iran).
rRwK0 TIL that when recording "Heroes", David Bowie used three microphones. One 9 inches away, one 20 feet away, and one just beyond that. Each microphone was muted as the next activated, forcing him to sing at increasing volume to be heard.
4R5b TIL Popeye the Sailor owns a dog-like creature whose cells leaked through from the fourth dimension, combined with cells from ours, and transmutated into a creature capable of moving between dimensions and solving difficult problems. His name is Eugene the Jeep.
b6Ra0 TIL Laurie Metcalf played Sheldon’s mom in The Big Bang Theory and her daughter Zoe Perry played Sheldon’s mom in Young Sheldon