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TIL Rajinikanth was not South-Indian; he was Marathi.

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b6kYp TIL that George Halas Jr. was the heir to the Chicago Bears until dying of a heart attack. During a lawsuit over the ownership to the NFL team, his body was exhumed. The coroner found that Halas's internal organs had been replaced with sawdust. His sister, Virginia Halas McCaskey, became team owner.
kOOV5 TIL: The French government states that fatherhood is determined by society, rather than biology. As such paternity testing is regulated by the state and only allowed in certain cases.
QJ4yL TIL that Chris Langan, "the smartest man in America" with an IQ reportedly between 190 and 210, began weight training at the age of twelve after repeatedly being physically beaten by his stepfather and stopped the abuse himself at the age of fourteen by throwing him out of the house.
OG8G6 TIL: The first quantitative estimate of the speed of light was done in 1676 by timing eclipses of Jupiter's Io.
NXraM TIL Elytra, AKA the hard casing of beetle wings, were used in Mughal India and then later on in Victorian England to adorn clothing, like an early form of sequins.