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TIL Elizabeth Taylor was diagnosed with a genetic mutation at birth, resulting in a double row of eyelashes around her eyes.

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1JGr TIL Moose and elk have been known to get drunk on frozen and slightly fermented apples and commit shenanigans such as breaking into shoe stores and getting stuck in trees.
mxy0M TIL about Sir Henry Head, a victorian English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, by severing and reconnecting sensory nerves and mapping how sensation returned over time.
l7aoN TIL that the Rick and Morty episode "A Rickle in Time" features "testicle monster" characters that were inspired by Steven King's "The Langoliers."
magE TIL The current image of what everyone thinks Jesus looks like is actually 15th Century Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. Alexander VI commissioned Leonardo Di Vinci to recast Jesus in the image of his own beloved son Cesare Borgia.
VM4gp TIL in 1986 Steve Jobs bought Pixar from LucasFilm for $5 million