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TIL that our brains and faces aren't centred

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DQ0Yg TIL That the supporting vocals on Meatloaf's "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" were not provided by Karla DeVito, who appears in the video, but by Ellen Foley the actress/singer who played 'Billie Young' for one season on the original 'Night Court'.
b6oBa TIL that from 2000 to 2020 the world’s wealth more than tripled, going from $440 trillion to $1,540 trillion.
0vL TIL Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen didn’t know how to play chess until they learned it to shoot X-Men.
GYlQG TIL in 2001, Honda prepared to release a car called the Fit, or in European markets, 'Fitta', unaware that in Swedish, the word translates to a vulgar term for a vagina. The slogan would have been, 'The all-new Fitta, small on the outside, big on the inside.' It was renamed the Jazz before release
rLZd TIL that Melbourne officials gave ID numbers to trees so the public could report damaged branches. People wrote love letters to the trees instead.