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TIL that John Lennon’s mother was killed by an off duty police officer who was never charged

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ney1o TIL the horse that portrays Roach in The Witcher is male, whereas Roach is a female, so they use CG to cover/remove the horse’s genitals.
BgoeL TIL there was a Blade tv series from 2006 that shares the same continuity with the New Line Cinema movies but with a different actor in the role of Blade
VBXQ4 TIL Ancient Greeks referred to Subsaharan Africans as Aethiopians, meaning “burnt-face people”. Aethiopia referred to all of the inhabited land found to the south of Egypt. The Greek historian Herodotus stated, “the men are taller, handsomer, and longer lived than anywhere else.”
6QW7 TIL pillbugs (AKA roly polies) are not, in fact, bugs at all. They’re crustaceans, “closely related to lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.”
pJaG TIL Stanley Kubrick was embarrassed to discover that HAL’s initials were one letter up from IBM, which had helped the production of 2001, “and we would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence”