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TIL James Cameron and Ridley Scott were working on a story for an Alien 5 movie until a Fox exec told Cameron, “We’ve got this really good script for Aliens versus Predator.”

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QJ69e TIL that the The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in the UK has a £1 million bounty to the first person who creates a product that is 100% chemical-free
JKyl TIL a man stole $100 million in diamonds, bypassing a 100-million-combination lock, infrared sensors, seismic sensor, and private security force, but was convicted by DNA he’d left on a partially eaten sandwich near the scene.
aw4OJ TIL Wages today are lower for the Average American Worker (Adjusted for Inflation) is earning less than Workers in 1973, despite Working More and are more Productive.
jAkR TIL In West Virginia in the late 1800s you could get admitted to an insane asylum for “Novel Reading”.
lgxV TIL in 1981, a pediatrician saved the life of a 3.2-pound premature baby boy by working around the clock to beat the odds & stabilize him. In 2011, the pediatrician was pinned inside a burning vehicle after a car collision, but was saved by the premature baby, who had grown up to become a paramedic.