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TIL that Bob Denver allowed Make-a-Wish kids to rescue him from an island. In full Gilligan costume.

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OojQa TIL that Julius Caesar likely had epilepsy, with four documented seizures: 1) in the Senate while being offered the Emperor’s Crown, 2) while listening to an oration by Cicero, and in military campaigns in 3) North Africa and 4) Corduba, Spain. Caesar won both battles despite his seizures.
bvWZ TIL that Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban all have twitter accounts that are regularly updated.
61am TIL Genetic Research proved most modern Jews trace back to Italy and not the Middle East.
9QEB TIL that occasionally people who are born without a lens in their eye can see some of the Ultra-Violet spectrum.
DQBJj TIL that the legs of the 630 foot 192 m) Gateway Arch in St. Louis, MO had to be built with a 1/64” (0.4 mm) tolerance so that they would meet at the top. Several filmmakers documented the entire construction in hope that the legs wouldn’t meet.