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TIL Martin Scorsese was once married to Isabella Rossellini

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LkoE9 TIL Magellan didn't circumnavigate the globe. Magellan only made it to the Philippines, where he started a battle and was killed by natives. It was one of his Captains — Juan Sebastián Elcano 1476 – 1526 — who actually completed the journey, yet historically has not received credit for his journey.
VG6Q TIL that Mark Hamill is the same age today (63) as Sir Alec Guiness was when Star Wars was released in 1977.
W5XB TIL that, despite their reputation, it is actually EXTREMELY RARE for an opossum to have rabies because their body temperature is too low for rabies to survive and replicate well.
R59Pj TIL 14th century conqueror Timur or Tamerlane's body was exhumed in 1941 by Soviet anthropologist for examination. The casket had the inscription "Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later, Germany invaded Soviet Union.
XEWL8 TIL of a 2011 study that analyzed the decisions made by a panel of judges who spent several days reviewing parole applications. It turned out that the likelihood of a prisoner getting parole was mostly determined by how hungry the judges were at different times in the day.