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TIL that Bridgette Wilson, who played Sonya Blade in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film, was jokingly known as "RoboBabe" on the set because of her insistence that she do her own stunts, including the fight scenes.

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KRME TIL the iconic promotional image of Willem Dafoe with his hands raised in anguish from movie “Platoon” was inspired by a real photo from the Vietnam War by Art Greenspon who traveled to Vietnam in his 20s to document the war
Y7VQr TIL The cute looking pygmy slow lorises are the only known venomous primate. Modified sweat glands near their elbows allow pygmy slow lorises to secrete a toxin. When they’re alarmed, they can lick these glands, spreading the toxin to their teeth, able to incapacitate predators as large as humans
J1LkV TIL The B-29 bomber program was the most expensive project of WWII, costing roughly ~50% more than the entire Manhattan Project
D1jZD TIL about The Woman Without a Face who committed murders, petty theft, and explosive robberies across Europe. What linked them was DNA from the same unknown woman. Eventually, it was found that the DNA was from a worker at the factory that produced the cotton swabs the forensics team had been using.
5VlAn TIL the United States has purchased thousands of weapons’ worth of uranium from decommissioned Soviet nuclear weapons. It is estimated that one in ten lightbulbs in the US are powered by nuclear fuel removed from weapons formerly pointed at the US and its allies.