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TIL that actor Jack Nicholson didn’t find out until his mid thirties that his “parents” were actually his grandparents and his “sister” was his mother

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81j4 TIL Male orangutans can be attracted to women with red hair. One male, Hsing Hisng, has even ripped pictures of Nicole Kidman out of magazines and placed them in his enclosure.
69r6J TIL a Japanese postmaster under investigation for embezzlement deployed three suicide attempts in succession before succeeding: hanging himself, leaping off a cliff, then drowning.
OxXe TIL male ants do not have fathers because unfertilized eggs become males while fertilized eggs become females
5Vgdr TIL Pete’s Dragon was turned into a live action movie! It hit theatres in 2016 and was made by Disney.
8aZyK TIL that Scotchgard was discovered by accident. Patsy Sherman, a chemist at 3M, dropped a chemical substance on one of her shoes while she was trying to develop a rubber material that could stand up to jet fuel. Later, when her shoes got dirty, she noticed that one spot stayed clean