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ZpZVv TIL: Morgan Freeman has suffered with paralysis in his left hand since he was left seriously injured in 2008 after his car flipped multiple times
VMLvk TIL that according to rumour, the emperor Augustus, suspecting that his wife was trying to poison him, refused to eat anything except figs that he had picked himself. His wife smeared poison on the figs while they were still on the tree to preempt him.
8PDX TIL the swedish writer Astrid Lindgren had to pay 102% tax in 1974. She wrote a satirical short story about it, which likely changed the outcome of the upcoming election.
d8P58 TIL: Isa Hayes, who was one of the marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, played himself in the movie The Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne.
mGmM TIL there is a Formula 1 driver who cannot drive in his home country without an adult present.