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TIL Shirley Temple appeared in blackface in "Littlest Rebel"

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woexY TIL Scientists genetically modified goats to spin spider silk from their udders. US Professor Randy Lewis transplanted a gene into the goats from a spider that allows the goats to produce milk containing an extra protein. This is then extracted from the goat milk and spun into spider silk thread.
jNEPp TIL that Royal Navy Submarines will, to this day, fly the Jolly Roger when returning to port. This is in response to an Admiral declaring that submarines were “underhanded, unfair and damned un-English” and all submariners should be “hung as pirates”
ZpbD TIL that one of the most powerful actors in Hollywood, worth $6bn, has never been in a big, blockbuster film, is almost completely unknown, and almost no-one knows who he is.
16xLD TIL that Paul Winchell, the guy who voiced Mr. Owl on the Tootsie Pop commercials, Tigger from Winnie the Poo, and Gargamel from the Smurfs, also invented the artificial heart.
rNlkd TIL there have been 91 deaths at Disney parks in the US