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TIL 1 month is NOT equal to 4 weeks

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vPl68 TIL Natalie Portman was supposed to be in the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet. But was fired due to her only being 13 while co star Leonardo DiCaprio was 21 at the time(saying he found it extremely inappropriate)
WkEpB TIL about renowned British military surgeon James Barry, a pioneer in the medical field with a career spanning over 50 years. After his death in 1865 the nurse prepping his body for burial noted female anatomy and stretch marks from pregnancy. Barry had been born a woman named Margaret Ann Bulkley.
0wJR5 TIL the first close up photo from Mars was taking so long to print that impatient scientists taped the raw data to the wall and colored over it with pastel crayon manually assigning color and value to the binary code.
nx4W TIL There are constructed words used to illustrate irregularities in English spelling. For instance: “Ghoughpteighbteau” could be pronounced “Potato”
PdMe TIL That a bear cub named Tahoe was found crying and hugging her dead mother and the rescuer, told by authorities to leave her alone, decided to save the cub instead.