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TIL: Mel Brooks put on a prosthetic 11th finger for adding his hand print on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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5YBjr TIL of a legend of Bodhidharma a Monk who fell asleep wall gazing, to stop it happening again he cut off his eyelids. When his eyelids hit the ground they became the first tea plants. This is apparently why the character for eyelids and tea are the same in Japanese.
v1MZ4 TIL that Venus flytrap plants are native to the coasts of North and South Carolina.
xVBk TIL that middle names were nonexistent until the 1600’s, and only became common after the American Revolution.
PYPle TIL Sherlock Holmes never speaks the line "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was said by Basil Rathbone in the movie 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'
5YX5k TIL of Jacob H. Smith, an American officer who launched a notorious attack during the Filipino-American War which killed as many as 50,000 civilians. During the attack - for which he was court-martialed - Smith was heard yelling "kill everyone over the age of ten."