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TIL Tom Hanks is related to Abraham Lincoln through a distant family connection. He is a third cousin, four generations removed, from the 16th U.S. president.

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ADgjx TIL John Rhys-Davies, who plays Gimli in ‘Lord of the Rings,’ lost the top of his middle finger as a kid and had special prosthetic made. He played a prank on Peter Jackson where he cut off the tip of the prosthetic, covered it with blood, walked up to Peter and said, “Boss, I had an accident.”
0dElA TIL that the thynnid wasp and the orchid Drakea glyptodon have a relationship involving sexual deception. The female wasp is flightless, so she climbs on top of plants to signal potential mates. This flower has evolved to resemble the female wasp. The males mistake it for a female, and fertilize it.
0dvyp TIL Bob Dylan and Brian Jones were such good friends that when Jones died in 1969, Dylan paid for the coffin that Jones was buried in. Dylan had also done it anonymously, to ensure there was no Fanfare
7rlMb TIL - the "Existential Slap" is the experience a dying person has when they know, at a 'gut level' death is close.
xVlVD TIL that in Māori mythology Māui tried to bring immortality to humanity, but was killed in the attempt by the goddess of death's obsidian vagina teeth.