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TIL Carlos Santana is anti-trans

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ZaGa TIL that Ron Perlman put on the make-up for Hellboy (a 4 hour process) just to fulfill a child’s Make-A-Wish request. He then spent the whole day with the child.
wLEn6 TIL of Yap, an island that uses massive stones for currency. It is said that one of these stones which had sunk to the bottom of the ocean while being transported years ago continues to be used as real currency today despite not having been seen since.
wLjgY TIL that later in life an Alzheimer stricken Ronald Reagan would rake leaves from his pool for hours, not realizing they were being replenished by his Secret Service agents
1Ywr TIL the head of Columbia Studios had Sammy Davis Jr. kidnapped by the Mafia to keep him from marrying a white woman.
8e0d8 TIL the most expensive fossil ever sold at auction is a mostly complete skeleton of a Stegosaurus known as Apex which sold for $44.6 million to billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin. It's the largest and most complete known Stegosaurus skeleton, with 254 bones preserved out of approximately 319.