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TIL that bugs called Eyelash mites live on our eyelashes, feeding on dead skin and oil and acting as a cleaner for our bodies

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Ryya TIL that James Earl Jones once used the handle “Darth Vader” while traveling across the country and spoke in character to truck drivers on the CB radio. It freaked them out and he had to stop.
R7AWQ TIL David Bowie hated Gary Numan so much to begin with that he had Numan thrown off the billing of a show they were both booked to appear in
LQ0Pp TIL that the first female on record to circumnavigate the globe did so twice, surviving two or three shipwrecks. She was a milk-goat with no name on record, just called "The Well-Travelled Goat" in her 1772 obituary.
9YkW6 TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis was so convincing as a killer in "Gangs of New York," the mom of his 10 year old co-star for "There Will Be Blood" saw the movie, and didn't want her son acting alongside him anymore. The studio sent her "The Age of Innocence" to reassure her Day-Lewis wasn't actually bad.
8aowZ TIL only 6 people are known to have ever survived a rabies infection.