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TIL Christopher Lee released a power metal album when he was 87 years old.

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yVM4V TIL that the clock of French queen Marie Antoinette is displayed in the La Salle des Espèces Menacées et des Espèces Disparues (Room of Endangered and Extinct Species) at the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution in Paris. The wing has 257 specimens, including a quagga gifted to the French royals in 1784.
9wYWQ TIL Louis Braille started designing his system of writing for the visually impaired when he was just 12 years old and it was mostly completed by the time he was 15.
LeEZ TIL of the ‘flic-flac’ desert spider - so called because of it’s ability to double its speed by cartwheeling out of danger
X4EE TIL that the phrase “when in Rome, do as the Romans do” comes from St. Ambrose who would switch his Milanese patterns of fasting to those of the Romans whenever he stayed in Rome.
x64lw TIL About Bum Farto, a fire chief and convicted drug dealer in Key West, Florida who disappeared in 1976.