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TIL that Steve-O, member of the Jackass crew, was; born in London, his first words were in Portuguese, and he was fluent in Spanish by age 4.

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Wd4o TIL between the 1940’s and 70’s Harvard took nude photos of each entering freshman student
R5N69 TIL that the myth of the "Seven Sisters" told throughout the world is believed to have originated over 100,000 years ago, due to the movements of the constellation that it is based on.
GYVWG TIL Bill Haast began extracting snake venom at 15 years old. He founded the Miami Serpentarium and injected himself with venom for 60+ years. His blood was used to save 21 snakebite victims. He created a venom serum to cure polio. He was bitten over 170 times and lived to be 100.
dxA9 TIL in Japan women give chocolates to men on Valentine’s Day and the men reciprocate it a month later for White Day.
VK6p TIL there is a modern-day Rosetta Stone that intends to be an archive of human languages called the Rosetta disk. While it is only 3 inches in diameter, it has over 1,500 languages etched onto its surface. It has over 13,000 pages of information which need to be magnified 1000 times to be read.