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TIL Talia Shire (Adrian from the Rocky movies) is Francis Ford Coppola’s sister, Jason Shwartzman’s mom, and Nicolas Cage’s aunt.

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YglG TIL Lord Nelson, one of the greatest British naval commanders of all time suffered from chronic sea sickness throughout his career.
oR9A TIL that a 15 year old girl with no vagina became pregnant after swallowing her boyfriend’s sperm. Her former boyfriend then stabbed her in the abdomen and the sperm travelled from her punctured stomach into her uterus, fertilising an egg.
mxk8M TIL: Cuba provides more medical personnel to the developing world than all the G8 countries combined
m1dMo TIL that Roman consular Manius Aquillus was executed by Mithridates of Pontus in 88 BC by having molten gold poured down his throat.
epygE TIL that the ancient Greeks had a form of "voting" called ostracism, where citizens could vote to banish a person from the city for ten years.