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TIL that a Marylin Monroe impersonator lives in the real Marylin Monroe's old house.

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lod05 TIL that cheek dimples are a genetically transmitted abnormality of a muscle in the cheek. Also, almost all babies have cheek dimples because of so much fat in their cheeks which is required for suckling and causes facial depression. They disappear once the baby fat melts away.
BrnQL TIL in the UK, the 5 archbishops and 21 most senior bishops of the Church of England are automatically granted 26 seats at the House of Lords (UK's Senate), with full voting powers. According to Humanists UK, the only other country to give clerics this kind of power is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
7jpp TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century confidence trickster who fooled over 500 people over 5 years to buy land in a fictional Latin American country called Poyais he claimed had been made ruler of. About half of the people who bought land died. He made a fortune, and was later tried and aquitted.
JYPnQ TIL about 'The never-ending lightning storm' in Venezuela. A lightning storm strikes most nights for eight months of every year, and has been flashing for thousands of years. Scientists still don't know why.
J1MV8 TIL Roman concrete structures such as the Pantheon and aqueducts are ultra durable because of lime clasts. While many modern concrete structures crumble after a few decades, Roman concrete has self-healing functionality from lime clasts which allow their structures to survive millennia.