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TIL Sunscreen is designed to filter UV rays and prevent sunburn, but will not prevent the production of melanin, meaning that your skin will tan

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m7kx TIL Christopher Lee didn’t enjoy playing Dracula but he continued to appear in the titular role in nine different movies as he realized they were popular and kept people employed.
9Y7vr TIL that sea otters have pouches under their forearms. In one (usually the left) they like to keep their favourite rock.
6llm TIL A 6ft 7in man named Peter Freuchen escaped from almost certain blizzardly death by fashioning a shiv out of his own feces and digging his way out of his snowy grave. He also amputated his own toes, wrote 12 books, and won the 64,000 dollar show (that’s much more now with inflation).
wLdVE TIL Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married model Mandy Smith when he was 52 and she was 18 after dating for 5 years. When they divorced, Wyman's oldest son married Smith's mother making the elder Smith both Wyman's daughter-in-law and ex-mother-in-law.
8woL TIL that there is a town Honduras where once a year, hundreds of small silver fish rain from the sky. Locals are stumped on where the fish come from or why the fish are blind.