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TIL That “Stranger Things” was rejected by 15 networks before finally being picked up by Netflix

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0wAZN TIL that prior to 1922, an American woman lost her citizenship if she married a foreigner.
nW8MG TIL about Zamor, a child who was kidnapped by British slave traders and eventually sold to King Louis XV, who gifted him to a mistress. He would later turn against her during the French Revolution, before being imprisoned himself as an accomplice.
ne0W TIL there is a man in Australia who ages so slowly that by age 40, he is only at the developmental level of a 10 year old
Yend TIL that “Nacho Libre” was based upon a Catholic priest turned luchador who called himself “Fray Tormenta” (Friar Storm); he supported an orphanage for 23 years with his second career.
lXB TIL that an ancient sequoia tree that has been alive for most of humanity’s modern history was cut down in 1891 so that slabs of its trunk could be displayed in museums.