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TIL Bald Eagles are so named because “balde” is an Old English word meaning “white.”

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xVK5D TIL That when attending Comic Con 2013, Bryan Cranston disguised himself by wearing a mask of Walter White over his own face. People told him he sounded like Bryan Cranston, but didn’t realise it was him. The charade only ended when he removed the mask at the Breaking Bad panel.
7RPb TIL that Colombian actress Sofia Vergara is naturally blonde, but is usually asked to dye her hair brown to appear like a more “typical” Latina.
N7xae TIL that despite being 23 kg (50 lbs), medieval knight armo(u)r is actually not as stiff as often portrayed and quite flexible. A Knight would be able to run full speed in it, fight with the dexterity of a common soldier and even perform acrobatics.
Wk1JY TIL that the King of Jordan, Abdullah bin al-Hussein (then prince), made a cameo in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager in 1996
8aoEL TIL: Northwest Angle, MN was created when map maker, John Mitchell miscalculated the source of the Mississippi being the Lake of The Woods.