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TIL that Jodie Foster's brother wrote a tell-all book in 1997 in which he outed their mother and also implied Jodie was gay (she came out decades later in 2013)

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emDg TIL that Coldest Place On Earth Recorded ‘Soul-Crushing’ -135.8 Degrees In the Middle of Antarctica Setting World Record. The old record had been about seven degrees warmer at -128.6 (-89.2 Celsius).
QVPp TIL that “generic” and “specific” are derived from “genus” and “species” and were originally scientific biological terminology
GYxp4 TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.
NXQrJ TIL that when Pope John Paul II was about to visit Britain in 1982, the Falklands War between Argentina and the UK began. To avoid the impression that the Catholic Church favored one side over the other, the Vatican quickly scheduled a papal visit to Argentina before the already scheduled UK trip.
N7AZQ TIL, chameleons can snatch their prey with their tongues in as little as .07 of a second, generating a force of 41g.