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TIL that while filming The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger went into a LA restaurant in battle-damaged Terminator makeup. He asked for a table in character and since no one knew who the Terminator was yet, the host and everyone in the restaurant started freaking out, screaming, and quickly left

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loDKA TIL The Roman legion of the "Legio IX Hispana", stationed in Britannia, mysteriously disappeared from surviving Roman records after around AD 120. There are no accounts on the disapperance, nor there has been any clear consensus on the matter.
jbWj TIL that Nietzsche did not drink alcohol, writing that it suppresses the will to change our lives for the better
1axLV TIL that Marvel's X-Men, and mutants in the Marvelverse in general, have been depicted as metaphors of RL social issues (esp. LGBT and the Legacy Virus = HIV arc).
8BMG TIL some cooperative bottlenose dolphins off the coast of Brazil help fishermen - having signaled with head and tail slaps to the fishermen where to drop nets, they corral the fish toward into them and eat the fish missed by the net.
9wkBG TIL you can have a set of identical triplets and fraternal twins (Fischer quintuplets (born 14 September 1963)