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TIL Bill Paxton improvised the famous line from Aliens “Game over, man! Game over!”, it was not in the script!

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d8ZNd TIL that between 1998 and 2016 Iceland managed to reduce the number of 15 and 16 year olds who had been drunk in the last month from 42% to 5%.
5YmEB TIL that if you add 250ml of water to 250ml of alcohol, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding between the different molecules drawing them close together, and that ethanol molecules are smaller than water molecules, so they fill in the spaces between the water.
lo4P5 TIL: The Roman emperor Caligula loved his horse Incitatus so much that he tried to turn the horse into a senator. His plan for equine politics was cut short by his assassination. Many historians believe the stunt was to humiliate his fellow senators.
e0QGb TIL that a huge explosion in the 17th century is why the Parthenon is partially destroyed
loALa TIL One of the major themes of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the dangers of the printing press destroying previous forms of art- namely architecture.