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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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mKWy TIL that over 10% of the population of a small Polynesian island has an incredibly rare form of colour blindness which renders them unable to see any colours at all. This is because a 1775 typhoon wiped out all but 20 of its inhabitants, and the ruler at the time carried this allele.
vPOX4 TIL the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was founded by FDR's New Deal in 1933. In its 9 year existence the CCC employed nearly 3 million men, planted over 3.5 billion trees, and established more than 700 state parks. It was the most rapid peacetime mobilization in US history.
xVdOB TIL there's a town in Oregon named "Bridal Veil" which despite being a near ghost town still have a popular post office still functioning that gets much of its business from people going there to drop off wedding invitations so they can be postmarked "Bridal Veil".
daK8 TIL That there is a museum in Kentucky that acts as a place of rest for dummies of ventriloquists that have died, it’s called the Vent Haven Museum.
kOxL1 TIL during the siege of Leningrad, a group of Russian botanists holed up in a secret vault starved to death rather than consume the greatest collection of seeds they were guarding for a post-apocalyptic world.