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TIL While filming in London for POTC: On Stranger Tides, Johnny Depp received a letter from a 9-year old schoolgirl, needing help to ‘mutiny’ against her teachers. He turned up with almost no warning at the school in full Sparrow outfit, but advised against mutiny.

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dDwQZ TIL In 2013, the first artificially reproduced human tooth was created in China. Scientists were able to create the tooth using epithelial cells extracted from human urine.
KORea TIL the Statue of Liberty was originally designed in the 1860s for Egypt. Named 'Progress Carrying the Light to Asia', French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi modelled the statue after an Egyptian woman dressed in a veil. Due to costs, the idea was rejected, and a lighthouse was erected instead.
8a4Oa TIL That to communicate through the network, trees send chemical, hormonal and slow-pulsing electrical signals, which scientists are just beginning to decipher.
6EvKJ TIL Tilda Swinton is of noble birth with her family being one of the 3 families in England that can trace their unbroken land ownership to before the norman conquest of 1066. She was also a friend and classmate of Lady Diana
Oo4Na TIL : Ram Setu / Adam's Bridge : A natural formation or a man-made marvel? What are your thoughts?