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TIL ‘The Grinch’ Makeup Artist, Kazuhiro Tsuji, Checked Into Therapy Because of Jim Carrey

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x6rpg TIL that there wasn’t a North Star throughout much of antiquity, and after the year 2100, Polaris (the current North Star) will start moving away from the celestial north pole. There won’t be another North Star until around the year 4200.
GYbAJ TIL that Pan Am jet “Clipper Climax” featured in the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Clipper Climax would later crash into a mountain in Indonesia as Pan Am Flight 812, killing everyone on board.
oRKXE TIL The Saint-Bélec slab (2150–1600 BCE) is a stone artefact from Brittany thought to be the earliest map of any known territory. The slab was discovered in 1900 and then forgotten for more than a century in the cellar at the Château de Kernuz, where it was rediscovered in 2014.
woPb1 TIL 70 percent of human genes are found in zebrafish, which is one of the reasons why they are excellent for modeling human diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy and melanoma. They are also used to study gene mutations and test new drugs.
j6jGM TIL Several African countries don’t like second-hand clothes being imported to their countries because it is destroying their local textile industry.