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TIL there was a Roman god of poop.

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nWoZP TIL that the Mr Bean episode Do-It Yourself Mr Bean, features him decapitating a picture of Princess Diana. This scene was deleted, after Diana’s death in a car crash.
dBY7 Today I learned that James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair, who portrayed the King & Queen of Zamunda in Coming to America, also provided the voices of Simba’s parents Mufasa & Sarabi in The Lion King
mxNDy TIL that when spiders ingest nanotubes, they weave silk reinforced with carbon. The spiders can make webs capable of holding humans.
wLX41 IBM now have a 50 qubit quantum computer but are still trying to figure out what to do with it.
QJ6yd TIL that German virologist Christian Drosten discovered SARS-CoV in 2003 and developed a test for the virus. His research group also developed a test for MERS-CoV in 2012. He then went on to develop a test for SARS-CoV-2 and made it available worldwide on the internet in January 2020.