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TIL Charles Dance’s father was 72 years old when Charles was born.

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YplwP TIL Wolves can be scared away from livestock pens using Wacky Inflatable Arm Men
ypDV TIL in the 19th century Human Zoos (zoos that displayed humans) were quite popular. The last one was closed in 1958; oddly, the first person to ban them was Hitler.
V8bB TIL the African Clawed Frog provided the first well-documented method of detecting pregnancy in women. Injecting urine from a pregnant woman into a frog resulted in the frog laying eggs shortly after.
QNd8k TIL olive mill wastewater (OMW) is a potential superfood with 25ml containing more polyphenols than a whole litre of extra virgin olive oil.
NNP8 TIL that the inspiration for Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s character in the Disney film Moana, Maui, a demigod in Polynesian culture, according to Maori Legend, died after he was crushed by the obsidian teeth of another god’s vagina while in the form of a worm, trying to win immortality for humans.