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TIL Vitamin D is a hormone

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d8wvQ TIL that Gerald Ford was born as Leslie King Jr. Soon after he was born, Leslie King Sr. drew a butchers knife on his wife and baby son, prompting her to move out, divorce him and remarry a paint salesman named Gerald Ford. They then decided to give the baby his name instead.
R5PD9 TIL Danny Boyle, director of 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire, declined knighthood for directing London Olympic opening ceremony. Proclaming he is proud equel citizen and that's what ceremony was about.
5QND TIL that during the filming of Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP in James Cameron’s soup, sending him and 50 others to the hospital
M7bwK TIL about "Hobson's Choice". It labels an illusion of free choice where only one thing is actually offered.
woJ1P TIL philosopher Thomas Hobbes was born prematurely on 5 April 1588, his mother going in labor because of her anxiety about the imminent invasion of the spanish armada, He would later write that "my mother gave birth to twins: myself and fear"