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TIL ‘Birdman’ actor Michael Keaton had to change his name because the Screen Actors Guild would not allow him to use his birth name “Michael Douglas”

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JY4dB TIL humans have stripes on our bodies which are invisible to the naked eye, called Blaschko’s Lines
pX5A TIL a town in Florida was named Frostproof as a marketing plot to claim that the town would never have a citrus frost. Less than two years after its founding a frost killed most of the citrus in town.
BZnd TIL the word ‘sahara’ means 'desert’ in Arabic, so the Sahara Desert is the 'desert desert’.
P1gJE TIL the flying insect population has decreased ~60% since the year 2000
QJwPp TIL of Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar, who expelled European powers, outlawed Christianity, repelled an invasion by the French & British, reinstated slavery and whose harsh rule led to the death of millions.