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TIL 44 year old Leonardo DiCaprio has known his current girlfriend, 21 year old Camila Morrone, since she was 11 years old.

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VPA4 TIL that Coelacanths were thought to be extinct since the cretaceous period, yet they were discovered alive in 1938
NN4J TIL that ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad was a survivor of Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn program, an attempt to selectively “breed” more children with “racially desirable” traits.
D19kr TIL that Ecuador is named after being on the equator and is in fact the only country in the world named after a geographical feature
xG8w TIL- The largest family to survive Auschwitz intact also had more Dwarfs than any other family ever recorded. Josef Mengele arranged for them to have special living quarters since Dwarfs were so hard to find for his experiments.
p8KPQ TIL that in ancient Rome, wearing pants was considered barbaric as the "civilised" cultures of the Mediterranean didn't need them. As the Empire expanded north, the Romans would be forced to adopt pants, particularly those of Celtic design, lest they freeze their balls.