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TIL the actor who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ was struck by lightning on set

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Oown1 TIL of an early variation of the jockstrap, called the "suspensory". It was developed in the 1820s as way to lift the scrotum away from the saddle. General Custer's suspensory is on display at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Museum.
A4Ga TIL Of “chemo curls”, a documented phenomenon that can occur after chemotherapy where one’s hair structure can completely change from blonde to dark and/or straight to curly and vise versa.
4keZ5 TIL that Flossie is the oldest living cat in the world, at 28 years old. She was born on December 29, 1995.
WBmd TIL 6 Nasa recruits are living for a year under a 36ft in diameter x 20 ft tall dome in Hawaii, to simulate life on Mars. They must wear a spacesuit when outside the dome. Recruits are: A French astrobiologist, German physicist and 4 Americans (pilot, architect, journalist, soil scientist).
0Z6M TIL that after the 1995 Saturday Night Live season, NBC fired Adam Sandler and Chris Farley from the show.