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TIL that the English actor Adam Woodyatt has been playing the same role in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (With a brief hiatus) for 40 years!

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9Y0Ym TIL about the scaly-foot snail. These snails have been found living in volcanic vents in the Indian ocean. Part of their adaptation includes an iron shell.
O7ee TIL that in 1779, Thomas Jefferson submitted an anti-sodomy law to Virginia that would castrate men caught having gay sex. This law didn’t pass, and the state kept their anti-sodomy law in which death was the maximum penalty.
dVXK TIL Boxing gloves are actually more dangerous and result in more deaths than bareknuckle boxing
1aoxO TIL that an English Earl was once king of Germany
nWLKd TIL Panama exists because Columbia would not sell their canal to the United States, so the U.S. Army allied with some local rebels who declared independence in 1903.