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TIL that Christopher Plummer was a great-grandson of 3rd Canadian Prime Minister John Abbott

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Zp8e4 TIL Timothy Olyphant was originally offered the role of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and The Furious. Olyphant passed thinking the movie would bomb at the box office and the role was given to Vin Diesel.
b9Bv7 TIL chameleon bones are fluorescent in UV light, and can even be seen through their thin skin. The more visible glowing patterns of tubercles (bony projections) can help identify a chameleon's species and gender.
16aAd TIL about the Society of Mutual Autopsy, established on 1876 by French anthropologists, whose rule was that each member had, on his death, to deliver his body (especially the brain) to the group for autopsy
KOPMB TIL that despite never going to Japan, Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker's studies on Seaweed resulted in a massive growth in Japanese Nori, and a local festival was made in her honor.
n7B7 TIL The majority of female koalas suffer from a sexually transmitted bacterial infection called chlamydia. This problem is aggravated by the fact that in captivity female koalas often engage in lesbian behaviour