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TIL that Natalie Portman not only co-authored a paper called "Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy" but that her birth name is Hershlag.

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RR4l TIL that Rabbis sometimes suck baby penis in a ritual called metzitzah b’peh
0dmL5 TIL That there was mysterious stone found buried in the ground in New Hampshire in 1872 that has no known age, purpose or origin.
R5757 TIL that Oliver Sipple was a former US Marine who intervened in the assassination attempted against U.S. President Gerald Ford. This event also led to his unwilling outing and estrangement from family.
rNEA0 TIL In 1995, Jennifer Fairgate was found dead in a locked Oslo hotel room with a gunshot to the head. Ballistics showed that suicide was not possible. Yet there were fingerprints and strangely her clothing labels were all removed making it impossible to ID her. Theories speculate she was a spy.