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TIL that every five years all the atoms in your body are completely replaced. Physically you are not the same person you were five years ago.

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d59Z TIL the opposite of “ambidextrous” is “ambisinister - to be clumsy with both hands.”
rMny TIL that Disney never sought legal action against Escape From Tomorrow (a movie shot illegally inside Disneyland featuring among other things Disney princesses as prostitutes) in order to avoid giving it extra publicity. The movie ended up only making $171,962 theatrically.
4kDeg TIL that Barry O'Brien who wrote for Filmation's Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night movie went on to write Hannah Montana decades later...
7r15Z TIL performance artists Teching Hsieh & Linda Montano spent one year tied to each other at the waist with an 8-foot-long rope. They had to stay in the same room while indoors (including at Montano's teaching job); and they were not allowed to touch each other until the end of the one-year period.
n5xB TIL in 1986 a French woman taught herself how to fly a helicopter, rented one, flew it over a prison, and plucked her bank robber husband off the prison roof.