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TIL Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon, the person who played the child in "Boyhood," uses the singular they pronoun and rejects the gender binary. "For me, the binary gender demarcation always has felt just kind of like … a charade, like this character that I have to play."

kOeXB TIL that Timothy Dexter, an american businessman in the 1800's, managed to build a fortune by embarking on ridicoulous business ventures, such as shipping coal to Newcastle, one of the foremost coal-exporting cities in Britain, which only succeded due to local workes having gone on strike.
AN0Nw TIL that in 2000, fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs ordered his followers to pull their children out of public schools, leading one school district to drop from 1,200 students, to less than 250.
MeRJB TIL loneliness is labeled an epidemic worthy of a public health intervention in USA. Loneliness and weak social connections are associated with a reduction in lifespan similar to that caused by smoking 15 cigarettes a day and even greater than that associated with obesity.
ep80n TIL Marcahuasi, a plateau in the Peruvian Andes, has massive rocks resembling human faces and animals. While some claim they are ancient sculptures, archaeologists have determined they are the product of erosion. The site also features mysterious pre-Columbian ruins with doorways only 3 feet high.
bZLE TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.