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TIL Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh was born Jennifer Leigh Morrow, daughter of actor Vic Morrow who was decapitated by a helicopter while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie

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e01GL TIL France banned short haul domestic flights where train alternative exists for environmental reasons. A flight from Paris to the same destination can be more than 70 times dirtier in terms of carbon emission than trains while saving few minutes.
kOMP1 TIL about industrial melanism,where darkly pigmented insects are selected over lightly coloured ones in industrial areas,because the trees are blackened by soot and provide camouflage.
4wvN TIL In 2013 a genetic test of fish in restaurants and supermarkets showed 84% of Sushi restaurants in the US mislabeled and replaced tuna with Escolar, a fish known to cause prolonged, uncontrollable oily anal leakage
nedWY TIL Ally Sloper's Half Holiday, a British comics magazine, first published in 1884 is regarded to be the first comic strip magazine to feature a recurring character. Sales of the magazine have been as high as 350,000, the magazine describing itself as "the largest selling paper in the world"
GYmXE TIL Valerian Rybar, an American interior designer, lined the walls of his dining room with 400 bound leather books, all fake, but with titles relating to various chapters of his life. One, entitled "International Boredom", allegedly alluded to his ex wife.