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TIL one of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's first TV roles was fighting Seven of Nine on Star Trek Voyager

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LkRZ0 TIL that Conrad Veidt, whose depiction of the lead in "The Man Who Laughs" inspired The Joker, married a Jewish woman in defiance of the growing power of the Nazi party. Although he was not Jewish, he wrote "Jewish" on his racial identification card. The couple wisely fled Germany for England.
R5kZa TIL: film critics Siskel & Ebert had a policy of never taking photos with popcorn or movie candy because they believed it devalued the seriousness and artistic integrity of films.
b9oyZ TIL that the cost of developing the B-29 Superfortress exceeded that of the Manhattan Project by ~1 billion (about 50% more)
b6B8Q TIL: In the 1950s, the Army to built a bunker close to Washington DC so that Congress could go there if there was a nuclear attack. Engineers built a facility 700 ft below a golf course - 2 stories and over 100,000 sq ft - kept secret until 1992, when the Washington Post revealed its existence.
nWnpW TIL that whale carcasses sequester a huge amount of carbon in the ocean