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TIL helium is a finite resource and that, at our going rate, we will have used up the entire planet’s helium reserves in just over 100 years

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GAw14 TIL Mexican actress Silvia Pinal smuggled the last remaining copy of the film Virdiana out of Spain after the Vatican ordered all other copies destroyed
yQLJX TIL The Nazis greatly admired the policies of segregation and Jim Crow in the American South, and their anti-Jewish laws were directly inspired by American policy towards black people
wo8J8 TIL that the reason that "The Office, An American Workplace" (the in-world documentary in The Office TV series) began filming was to document the fallout from the suicide of a Dunder Mifflin employee named Tom Peets (mentioned briefly in S2 E8). The focus was later changed to the Scranton branch.
8xQb TIL that Malcom X had a Scottish grandmother and the reddish hair he inherited from her inspired the nickname “Detroit Red.”
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