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TIL Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson comes from a wide family of American Samoan professional wrestlers called the Anoa'i.

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pYWAO TIL that Ruth Handler, the inventor of Barbie, later created a breast prosthesis to be used by women who've undergone mastectomies due to breast cancer. The prosthesis, called "Nearly Me" was very popular, with then-first lady Betty Ford being personally fitted for one.
E4Np TIL a group of Mennonite men sprayed anaesthetic through bedroom windows at night, sedating entire families so they could rape the women.
rR8mW TIL the Large Hadron Collider had to be turned off for a period of time because a bit of baguette was found in it.
vLGD TIL Crispin Glover, who played Michael J Fox’s father in Back to the Future, is actually younger than him.
9YAk7 TIL the shot of Luke running out of the Wampa cave in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ was achieved by having Mark Hamill running out of the hotel the crew was staying at into the Norwegian snow beyond. At the time, they were being hit with the worst winter storm the area had gotten in 50 years.