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TIL According to the Bible, Moses was born out of incest: his mother Jochebed was the aunt of his father Amram (Exodus 6:20)

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YpRRx TIL that in the late 90s there was a live action Wallace and Gromit that was only aired once and is utterly terrifying
eNjg TIL 13 year old Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) played on a BBC talent show in 1957. When asked what he wanted to do after schooling, Page said “I want to do biological research and find a cure for cancer”
b6W5p TIL that the Panama Canal is actually North to South from the Atlantic side, and the Atlantic entrance is 37 km West of the Pacific entrance...so, you actually go West to East when taking the canal from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
YLdG TIL in 1946, during a land survey of Sichuan province in China, a forester encountered a tree he’d never seen before, so took a sample. He came to find it was as yet unknown to science, only previously existing as a fossil. It came to be known as the ‘Dawn Redwood’.
XgvP TIL that ‘the females of only three species — killer whales, pilot whales, and humans — are thought to carry on living after they pass beyond their reproductive age’.