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TIL Darth Vader lost an arm/hand 7 times in total

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dD0GK TIL about Ratatoskr a squirrel in Old Norse mythology who runs up and down the world tree Yggdrasil to carry messages (mostly insults) between the eagles perched atop Yggdrasil, and the serpent Níðhöggr.
L5nr TIL the Ten commandments quoted by most people aren’t the ten commandments carved into the stone tablets by Moses according to the Bible. The actual Ten Commandments contain gems such as “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk” and “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me.”
9YeZM TIL that Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" in 1958 (she turns 76 this week!)
wo5X6 TIL of "the Bat man", a married woman's lover kept in her attic for 10 years.
bPZQ TIL there is an unusual type of skin tumor with the appearance of a horn that can grow in very rare cases up to 10 inches on a humans forehead.