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TIL: The role of Frodo in a 1981 bbc radio dramatization of LOTR was played by Ian Holm, who went on to appear as Bilbo in Peter Jackson’s films.

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j6Zbp TIL: The World's Biggest Spider is the Goliath Birdeater, with a leg span of up to 30 centimeters and a body length of up to 11 cm. Despite its name, it primarily eats insects but has been observed preying on small mammals, amphibians, and snakes.
E1jdd TIL Britney Spears has an official music video where she is anime character that destroys a cloning laboratory. The song is pretty good too.
7a8x TIL A baby porcupine is called a ‘porcupette’
GY9bJ TIL about the Misericorde - the 'Mercy Knife', which was a long narrow dagger used for killing wounded soldiers at the end of a battle. It was considered better than dying in pain from infection or from wounds which were not instantly fatal.
9YnNB TIL the 'Kerala School' identified the 'infinite series'- one of the basic components of calculus - in about 1350. The discovery is currently - and wrongly - attributed in books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries.