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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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mxk9E TIL that Queen Anne of England was pregnant 17 times. The first time at the age of eighteen, and the last at the age of thirty-four. She either miscarried or gave birth to stillborn babies. One child died under a year, another at a year and a half, and the oldest died at the age of eleven in 1700.
7pEb TIL that the doctor that claimed a link between vaccines and autism made up data
v0KB TIL Lions inhabited many areas of Europe until they were hunted to extinction around 100 BCE.
rRQDe TIL Jackie Chan turned down to play the main antagonist "Koji Sato" for the 1989 film Black Rain because he feared audiences would hate to see him play as the bad guy. Harrison Ford and Kurt Russell were highly considered for the main protagonist "Nick Conklin" before Michael Douglas was cast.
OorBX TIL South Carolina has the only tea plantation in North America