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TIL that Aretha Franklin had her first child at the age of 12.

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oBbdK TIL that director Alejandro Jodorowksy planned to make Dune in 1975. The character of the Padishah Emperor was to be played by artist Salvador Dali.
aw80b TIL of three Brazilian soldiers of the BEF in World War II - Refusing to surrender to a superior German force, they fought fiercely, but were killed. The Germans buried them, inscribing "Drei Brasilianischen Helden" (Three Brazilian Heroes") in recognition of their bravery.
a45o TIL there is a legend that flexible glass was invented around 20AD, when a craftsman presented Tiberius Caesar a bowl of this glass, whereupon he threw it to the ground and it did not shatter. Fearing the implications of such a material, the Caesar had the man beheaded, the formula now lost forever.
9wOVm TIL that there is an Ancient Egyptian text from around 1000 BCE titled "The Immortality of Writers," including the quote "Man decays, his corpse is dust. All his kin have perished; But a book makes him remembered through the mouth of its reciter."
Xy6R TIL that in Argentina, orangutans are granted human-like rights