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TIL Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi wrote the initial script for Disney's 'Moana' focusing more on Moana’s family relationships and adding irreverent, “very Pacific humour”. All that remains of his original script is “EXT: OCEAN – DAY”, jokes Waititi, but he felt the final product was “good”.

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K11J TIL of Jean Hilliard, a woman found frozen solid 1980, who survived and made a full recovery.
loK9K TIL a Swedish mathematician (Arne Beurling) single-handedly deciphered and reverse engineered an early version of the secret German communication system in WWII. This early system is considered more difficult than the later Enigma system deciphered by Alan Turing.
a5BM TIL that in 1961, a 27 year old Soviet doctor stationed at the South Pole performed a self-appendectomy using a mirror. He fully recovered.
X9mr TIL a sailor who wishes to grow a beard in the Royal Navy has to submit a ‘permission to stop shaving’ form. He is then allowed two weeks to 'grow a full set’ before he presents himself to the Master at Arms who will decide if his beard looks stupid or is respectfully full enough to be permitted.
D1LZv TIL a majority of Icelanders believe in the existence of elves