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TIL that Mavis Beacon, from Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, is not a real person and is a stock photo

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LZRV TIL that apples are originally from Kazakhstan.
JYdMB TIL Rodney King died on Father’s Day in 2012 by drowning in a swimming pool. This was 28 years after his father died, also on Father’s Day, and also by drowning.
GYRW1 TIL the world's first emergency phone number was launched in London in 1937. It initially only covered a radius of 12 miles. The 999 number was chosen due to the ease of dialing it on phones at that time.
69EaZ TIL dogs see the invisible magnetic fields surrounding the Earth due to the Cryptochrome molecule in their eyes. This sense allows a dog to find their owners and homes when they've gotten lost many miles from home.
e0xZn TIL that Max Headroom, the iconic 1980’s digital talking head, was not actually digital, but a real actor wearing prosthetics and makeup. The studio heads wanted to keep it secret at the time, and wouldn’t even allow the artists to be submitted for makeup awards.