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TIL Jennifer Connelly had nearly half of her finger bitten off by a chimpanzee while filming "Phenomena." (1985) It was surgically reattached soon after.

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ADNZ7 TIL historians are unsure why New York is the Empire State.
8l0L TIL The Caveman Effect- Prehistoric people are associated with caves because that is where artifacts from them were able to be preserved over time, not necessarily because most of them lived in caves for most of their lives.
epaEk TIL Samus Aran from the Metroid game series was identified as a bounty hunter, but Nintendo later admitted they did not know what a "bounty hunter" was and just liked the title
4eaR TIL, for the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg wanted the velociraptors to be about 10 feet tall, which was taller than they were known to be and had dinosaur fans everywhere complaining. During filming, paleontologists uncovered 10-foot-tall specimens of raptors called Utahraptors.
wL7D7 TIL about the book 'Comfort women of the Empire', by a korean historian who was the first to interview the Korean comfort women for the japanese army.