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TIL that Skander Keynes, the actor who played Edmund in The Chronicles of Narnia, is the great great great grandson of Charles Darwin

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korB TIL that candles lit in microgravity (i.e., space) burn not with a yellow, tapered flame, but with a spherical, nearly invisible blue flame
EA0 TIL that German Chocolate Cake has nothing to do with Germany, but rather a man with the last name of German.
E5JW TIL that the reason we say “redhead” instead of “orangehead”“ for hair color is because English didn’t differentiate between the colors until the 1540s, long after the term was coined.