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TIL that Bolaji Badejo, the 6'10 man who played the alien in Alien (1979) didn't audition for the role but was casted by the film's casting agent Peter Ardram, Ardram casted Badejo in a London pub, since he was looking for a tall and thin man to fit the role. This was Badejo's first acting role

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69LxW Today I learned that someone got to run Windows XP at 90 KHz or 0.09 Mhz. Who is equal to the CPU clock rate of a Intel 4004 (The first cpu in the world)divided by 7. This CPU was released in 1971. The Intel 4004 had 760KHz of CPU clock rate.
epkg4 TIL That after Phil Collins developed an interest in the Alamo he amassed the largest private collection of artifacts related to the battle. He donated them back to the Alamo and was named an honorary Texan.
Brb0x TIL, there’s a bunch of extremely useful punctuation marks that are barely ever used, such as the “Question Comma”.
VMGdm TIL Almonds and cashews aren't as high-calorie as we thought, and Kind is cutting the calorie counts of its bars as a result (15-25% less calories)
LQmd9 TIL the Hanford Site in Washington made the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki and the first nuclear test at Trinity—while exposing thousands of workers to deadly radiation.