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TIL In X-men, camera tricks are used to make Hugh Jackman appear shorter because at 6'2 he is almost a foot taller than Wolverine is said to be in the comics… 5'3.

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78Lex TIL that identical twins have a unique DNA signature that lasts a lifetime, and scientists can now tell if someone was originally conceived as a twin.
xjGg TIL that in Saudi Arabi a 19-year-old gang rape victim was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail for the crime of “indecency” and “speaking to the press”
6EVyX TIL that in 1986, when a five year old boy fell into a gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness, a male gorilla named Jambo stood between the boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, he even stroke the boy's back. This incident helped create a positive public perception of gorillas.
yVjNe TIL about the artist August Natterer, who suffered from Schizophrenia, On 1 April 1907, he had a hallucination of the Last Judgment, in which he saw "10,000 images [flash by] in half an hour." He then spent his life creating art from the images he saw, under the pseudonym 'Neter'.
18Lr TIL the U.S. Army illegally performed “psychological operations” to manipulate American senators into providing more troops and war funding – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.