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TIL one of The Rock's earliest acting roles was fighting Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager

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6Elbl TIL That deep underwater, red looks as green. The deeper you go in the ocean, the less red light there is in the sunlight that reaches you. Without red color in the sunlight, only green light reflects from the blood.
E1MvW TIL many buildings in the Roman Forum were reasonably intact until the Renaissance. Several temples and arches were destroyed to provide building materials for St. Peter's Basilica and other projects.
jeKE TIL the first level of Super Mario Bros (NES) was precisely designed so as to teach a new player that getting mushrooms was good, blocks could be hit, and jumping on gumbas wouldn’t hurt you, by making these actions almost impossible to avoid.
jAnR TIL paleontologists have found 55-million-year old fossil remains of parrots in Scandinavia
65Y TIL a 34 year old man once spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator in New York - “He walked onto an elevator one night, with his life in one kind of shape, and emerged from it with his life in another.”