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TIL Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell donated their wages for 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' to Heath Ledger's daughter after he passed away during filming and they filled his role.

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dmXE TIL young chimpanzees have better numerical memory than adult humans
a4RM TIL in 1995, when looking through the manuscripts of Carl Koller at the Library of Congress, a German historian found a small envelope of cocaine with the note: “Remainder of the first dose with which I made my initial cocaine experiment in 1884”
dv09 TIL scorpions are incredibly resilient. Scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
aw05L TIL that in 1996 Dave Chappelle was in a spin off from Home Improvement, called "Buddies". It premiered on March 5, 1996 and was cancelled on April 3, 1996 after just five episodes.
Ol5a TIL people of the Middle Ages widely accepted the Earth was spherical. The notion they thought the world was flat is actually a misconception.