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TIL that gnomes - fictional small magical people living in mines - were invented by Paracelsus in 16th century

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YbwP TIL Kevin Bacon initially thought he hit a career low with the film “Tremors” even stating that he “broke down and fell to the sidewalk” screaming “I can’t believe I’m doing a movie about underground worms!”
xZ80 TIL The blinking light atop the Capital Records Building spells out the word “Hollywood” in Morse code, and has done so since the building’s opening in 1956.
p8KoZ TIL that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one of the few diseases with no cure and a 100% fatality rate. It is the human equivilant of Mad Cow disease and 70% of people with it die within a year. Nobody has lived past 2.5 years after the symptoms set in.
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v1pb8 TIL Over 140 Polish pilots flew in the British Air Force during the Battle of Britain, making them the largest non-British nationality in the force. 2nd was New Zealand, and 3rd was Canada. Nearly a quarter of the pilots that fought for the RAF and RN in the Battle of Britain were not British.