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TIL that Angelina Jolie is a descendant from King Phillip II of France

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QNZV9 TIL about Marina Abramović, a Serbian performance artist who, in 1974, created an art piece called Rhythm 0. In this piece, she placed 72 objects on a table that ranged from a feather, scissors and a gun with a single bullet. She then allowed the audience to do whatever they wanted for 6 hours.
ne6Gr TIL that a breastfeeding mother can absorb some of the babies saliva through the breast duct. The mothers immune system analyses the saliva and adjusts the antibodies in the breast milk according to the babies needs.
RMla TIL that when boarding a train, a man who was mistaken for a terrorist suspect was held down by police and shot in the head seven times at point blank range. He was innocent.
WkYg4 TIL when you get a sunburn, it’s not your skin cells being damaged by the sun and dying, it’s your skin cells’ DNA being damaged by the sun and them killing themselves so they don’t turn into cancer.
4k9Gg TIL Mussolini’s son in law, Count Ciano, was purged from the cabinet in 1943 when he was implicated in a plot to replace his father. Despite being offered many other safer positions away from Italy as a concession to his familial ties, Ciano chose the ambassadorship to the Holy See.