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TIL that Sylvester Stallone’s famous look is due to a nerve injury at birth, not Bell’s Palsy

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oBw0W TIL Japanese macaques or snow monkeys get their name because they live in the more snowy areas of Japan. Snow monkeys are the most northerly-living primates, other than humans, and they are known to congregate around thermal springs (onsen) in winter. They also enjoy rolling snowballs for fun.
ZpLlB TIL - In the 1977 Formula 1 season, Niki Lauda won the driver’s championship with 2 races still to go. He didn’t drive those last 2 races, perhaps because he was changing teams the next year. Gilles Villeneuve drove the last 2 races for Ferrari, in Niki’s absence.
N79WN TIL: After British colonists killed off the entirety of the Tasmanian Aboriginal natives in a matter of ~60 years, the last full-blooded Tasmanian male's body was dug up by a surgeon (who had already mutilated the corpse in the hospital previously) can take skin off the body to make a tobacco pouch.
9jX7 TIL Skin slippage allows investigators to remove the entire hand-skin from unidentified bodies, and wear it like a glove to get fingerprints.
5VAXn TIL That Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was present at or close by to three presidential assassinations. Later in life he would decline a presidential invitation stating that "...there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."