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TIL Somali actor Barkhad Abdi was paid $65000 for his role in Captain Phillips and after production finished returned home to sell cell phones.

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9MgB TIL the common saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results” didn’t originate from Einstein, Ben Franklin, or Confucius but rather from Rita Mae Brown’s paraphrasing a quote from Narcotics Anonymous in 1983.
dDZbE TIL after Columbus landed in the Americas in 1492, they discovered Taino people roasting meat over a grill, allowing the flames and smoke to envelop the meat for a certain flavor. Called "barabicu" by the Taino, the technique spread to Europe and the colonies, and is now known as Barbecue.
E1NZ7 TIL The communal chatter of snapping shrimp colonies on the ocean floor created enough white noise that the U.S. Navy successfully hid submarines near them during WWII, avoiding detection by underwater Japanese hydrophones.
Xl5j TIL Scientist John All fell into a 70-foot deep crevasse in Nepal. He broke 15 bones and was bleeding internally but miraculously survived and was able to document his climb out.
4XOYN TIL if the Andromeda Galaxy were brighter, it would be larger in the sky than the Moon