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TIL Nicolas Cage is the nephew of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and his real name is Nicolas Kim Coppola. To avoid accusations of nepotism, Nicolas chose the last name “Cage” due to being a fan of both the Marvel superhero Luke Cage and composer John Cage.

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neL8B TIL about Antinatalism a philosophy that argues that life is so painful that humans should not reproduce.
n6JP TIL the “Alexandra Limp” was a short lived fad in Victorian London. Fashionable young women mimicked the limp of Princess Alexandra. Canny shopkeepers even started selling mismatched footwear, with one high heel, and one low. The practice was widely ridiculed, even at the time.
gMWYL TIL German chocolate cake was made by an american whose last name was "German"
aDyb TIL a tourist from the town of Dull, Scotland visited the town of Boring, OR and proposed that two villages become sister cities.
BbMK TIL that blue whales can consume up to half a million calories in a single mouthful of krill. If you eat 2000 calories a day, that’s over 8 months of calories.