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TIL in the 1964 film Zulu, the Zulu king Cetshwayo kaMpande was portrayed by his actual great-grandson

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GYB6J TIL the idea of black holes was first proposed in 1783 by John Michell, calling them "dark stars" and proposing a method to detect them by looking for star systems that showed the gravitational effects of two stars, but only one star was visible, which is indeed how scientists look for them today
GA95Q TIL ‘Genius dogs’ can learn names of more than 100 toys, study finds
woEk6 TIL The earliest condoms (16th century) were made of pig intestines and sometimes had sexual illustrations on them.
nD4d TIL that YouTube had to update their view count from 32-bit to 64-bit solely because Gangnam Style had too many views.
M44V TIL the Indian government has issued cattle ID cards of cows in West Bengal to stop smuggling of cows to Bangladesh. Each cattle ID card has the picture of the animal & the owner with information such as its color,height,sex and length of horns and details-like “one horn missing” or “half tail lost”