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TIL nearly 25% of all the bones in a human body are located in the foot

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16kRO TIL: Actress Maggie Smith was struggling with breast cancer and undergoing chemo treatments during the filming of Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, but was determined to finish shooting because she didn't want to disappoint her fans.
N7Bx8 TIL the American artist Sarah Goodridge painted a miniature self-portrait of her breasts which she gave to her lover Daniel Webster in 1828.
9AeB TIL president Hoover and his wife both spoke Mandarin Chinese and would use it in the White House to foil eavesdroppers
rNded TIL in the mid-60s, Canadian composer Galt MacDermot, who was then a 38 year old father of four, was offered to compose the music for the hippie-rock musical “Hair”. Galt admitted that he had no clue what a hippie even was, but was “enthusiastic to do a rock-and-roll show.”
d8b9r TIL that birch trees have bark that peels because they can photosynthesize through their bark. Peeling off the old bark removes lichen and fungus that would prevent photosynthesis.