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TIL That Dick Van Dyke was saved by a pod of porpoises after he fell asleep on a surfboard and drifted out to sea

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EQdo TIL a Tortoise that died in Steve Irwin’s zoo at the age of 175, was once owned by Charles Darwin
6MrY TIL that the “Vulcan nerve pinch” concept on Star Trek (1966) was invented by Leonard Nimoy when he and the series’ writers were trying to figure out how an unarmed Spock could overpower an adversary without resorting to violence.
nW6Zd TIL that in AFL football the longest kick in history was 98 metres (107 yards) kicked by Albert Thurgood. It’s apparently hotly debated though with Fred Fanning allegedly kicked 105.5 metres (116 yards). This all happened before 1950!
NXgde TIL Devil's Advocate was an official position within the Catholic Church dedicated to uncovering flaws and misrepresenations of miracles during the process of canonizaion into sainthood
neond TIL Based on da Vinci's work, there is evidence that the artist had strabismus: one eye is straight, while the other eye can drift. Some forms of strabismus are thought to facilitate artistic work by suppressing the deviating eye, which creates 2D monocular vision advantageous to painting & drawing