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TIL Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse Aragorn rides in Lord of the Rings after production.

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WM6N TIL George Lucas was in debt after building Skywalker Ranch and producing the bomb “Howard the Duck”, so he sold the Lucasfilm CGI division to Steve Jobs, which later became Pixar.
78QnP TIL life expectancy in the US is at a 26 year low due to COVID-19 and other factors. The decline in life expectancy since 2019 is one of the steepest in recorded history.
j6doM TIL about XT11, a severely disabled infant chimpanzee that exhibited Down syndrome-like symptoms and other congenital birth defects. Her mother and sister took care of her anyway and her social group did not reject her. She survived in the wild for 23 months.
1a67d TIL Iron-deficiency anemia is the most common and widespread nutritional disorder in the world, and in India alone it affects more than 600 million people
XdZE TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than “hearing voices”