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TIL; Actress Liv' Tyler (Who played the elf Arwen in LOTRs from age 20 to 27) - Did not know Steven Tyler was her father until she was 10, she even met him at age 8, and had a "crush" on him, before she actually confronted her mother and learned he was her father.

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Z8Oeo TIL while bombing Munich, a B17 got 2 engines knocked out & was denied permission to land in Switzerland. On the flight back to UK the crew jettisoned anything weighty, including their parachutes. They lost another engine but landed in Dover. The plane had 600 Bullet Holes
R5Vyw TIL Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, while the third circulates it throughout the body. Their blood is blue due to a copper-based molecule, efficient in cold, low-oxygen environments.
WkNBd TIL the US two dollar bill is still being produced today. It's apparent rarity is in part due to the common misconception that it is no longer being produced, causing people to collect them, thus pulling them out of circulation.
NXbKJ TIL that it's possible to to be libel-proof on the basis that your documented behavior has been so awful you're legally foreclosed from suing anyone for what they write about you. In the U.S. it's informally named the Dykstra defense.
4X5VN TIL: "Lunch atop a skyscraper" - one of Americas most iconic photos taken in 1932 was staged as part of photo-shoot to promote the opening of the Rockefeller centre in New York. This is just one of several photos featuring real steel workers taken as part of the same photo-shoot.