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TIL Jennifer Connelly had one of her fingers partially bitten off by a chimpanzee during the filming of Darío Argento's 1985 film Phenomena

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NXdYe TIL the 4 Synoptic Gospel's were probably written 3-5 decades after Jesus death based on oral tradition w different versions and different facts printed each century, and the earliest know versions are not in agreement about the date of Jesus crucifixion (before or on Passover).
DQwRD TIL that singer Lenny Kravitz was named after his uncle, a soldier in the U.S. Army who posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War.
yQG5X TIL the Black Death was originally spread to Europe in the 14th century by Mongols catapulting infected corpses into an Italian trading outpost in Crimea, who fled and unwittingly carried the disease back to Sicily where it proceeded to wipe out up to 60% of Europe's population in four years
klRe TIL 4 percent of Americans believe that shape-shifting “Lizard People” are in political control of the US and the world. 7 percent were unsure.
KOe69 TIL National Dollar Day on August 8th commemorates the day Congress established the U.S. monetary system in 1786. In 1862, the United States printed its first dollar bill. It wasn’t George Washington face, The first dollar bill featured Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury.