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TIL that prop material from David Lynch's Dune (1984) was reused in a raunchy mexican comedy film about two astronauts landing in a planet inhabited solely by women, called “Two trashy guys on the planet of women” (Dune was shot at Estudios Churubusco in Mexico)

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nWKrd TIL Panama has a point where you can see the Sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic, the only country where you can see it that way round.
jN0xQ TIL Senator Bob Dole befriended a bar tender he often saw and later convinced him to take the LSAT exam and paid for it. The bar tender went on to get a perfect score and was accepted into Harvard Law School.
PYQOn TIL that baby sand tiger sharks devour their siblings in the womb. The largest, usually the earliest, embryo devours the others, until only two dominant embryos are left. Female sand tiger sharks’ mate with multiple males and the babies will then compete in the womb to be born.
kJ86m TIL, That since domestication, dogs' eyes have changed. Dogs now have eye muscles that make them more expressive and infant-like. These same muscles are absent in wolves, their closest relative.
mxgjE TIL the most fertile woman in history, a Mrs. Vassilyev, gave birth to 69 children