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TIL that Dame Judi Dench has photographic memory and can recite entire Shakespeare plays from memory.

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wmDo TIL that people literally grow trees and roots into bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, etc… It’s known as “Tree Shaping.” Theoretically, it can even be used to grow homes.
KOmA4 TIL before Gilligan's Island got its famous theme, the pilot featured a 6 minute long Calypso song written by a then-unknown John Williams
QN8Vd TIL: Paper planes were not made to mimic air planes. They predate airplanes by more than 2000 years.
KORX6 TIL of Takarazuka, an all-female musical theater in Japan where women play all roles in lavish, Broadway-style productions of Western-style musicals, and sometimes stories adapted from shōjo manga and Japanese folktales.
8ee1V TIL Otis Redding never heard the completed version of his only No. 1 hit, “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay.”