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TIL that author Ian McEwan helped his son write his A level English exam about one of his own novels, Enduring Love. The teacher disagreed with his interpretation.

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Wke0d TIL that Dolph Lundgren in addition to being a 3rd Dan Black Belt and '80/'81 European Karate champion, earning a Masters in Chemical Engineering, a scholarship to MIT, and becoming a movie star, is an abuse survivor. There can never be to many "strong" men like him and Terry Crews in this world.
4XLpX Mars and the moon are already at the top of NASA’s prospect list for future human exploration and possibly colonies, but another planet has recently been getting some unexpected attention. NASA seriously wants to send humans to Venus.
DQwxJ TIL that moose are deer.
gMVeb TIL Nancy Reagan was known as the Blowjob Queen of Burbank for giving the best head in Hollywood.
Eg1mw TIL, until 1929, the legal age of marriage in England and Wales was 14 for males and 12 for females. With The Age of Marriage Act released in 1929, it increased to 16 with the consent of the parents or the guardian, and to 21 without that consent.