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TIL Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born in the same year. If alive, they both would be 84

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e0gg6 TIL the Cavalry Commander in Wellington's Army lost his leg at Waterloo.As it was being amputated, he smiled and said "I have had a pretty long run. I have been a beau these 47 years and it would not be fair to cut the young men out any longer".His amputated leg became a popular tourist attraction.
x6blD TIL Maggie Grace played 22 year old Shannon Rutherford on Lost starting in 2004, but played 17 year old Kim Mills in Taken in 2008
ZorQ TIL that the fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans - so much so, they could be confused at a crime scene!
5YlnD TIL: In 1209, a student of Oxford University apparently killed a woman and fled. In retaliation, the townspeople hanged three students. The school suspended operations and the faculty all feared the mob. Many of the facility then moved to Cambridge and founded a new university there.
R58Qj TIL there was a Baywatch spin-off show called "Baywatch Nights", starring David Hasselhoff. Intended to be a grounded procedural crime show, it pivoted in its 2nd season to being a full-on paranormal show with monsters, ghosts, mummies, vampires, parallel universes, and time travel a la The X-Files.