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TIL that at the moment John Lennon was pronounced dead a Beatles song came over the hospital’s sound system.

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5VQJQ TIL that in "Maleficent", Angelina Jolie's own daughter had to play the younger version of Aurora, because they were unable to find any other young girl who wasn't too scared to go near Angelina in her Maleficent costume.
Zrlp TIL polar bears are so well insulated from the cold that it is invisible when photographed with infrared film, which detects heat. Except for a spot in front of its mouth made by its warm breath.
KYwnE TIL of the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Anglo-Saxons caught a Viking Raider force before the Vikings could get back to their boats and annihilated them.
xVKjD TIL the greenland shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrate species (300–500 years). The species reaches sexual maturity at 150 years of age. Some of the sharks sampled by researchers had been alive for nearly 400 years and were estimated to be born between 1504 and 1744.
e0pO5 Sea creatures in Mariana Trench (the deepest place on Earth) have been found with man-made fibres in their stomachs for the first time, showing that no part of the world’s seas are now untouched by human rubbish.