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TIL Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are full siblings, and each took an altered form of their parent's surnames (originally "Beaty" and "MacLean")

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JBL8 TIL: There was no Roman “thumbs down” for gladiator fights and thumbs up meant death
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070N TIL that a NASA intern stole lunar samples from the Apollo mission, arranged them on his bed and literally had “sex on the moon” with his girlfriend.