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TIL That Dwane The Rock Johnson started his career in WWE with the name “Rocky Maivia”

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PYaWw TIL that Surveyors have found that the clock tower at the Palace of Westminster( BIG BEN ) has developed a tilt. Experts says even though the tilt is visible to the naked eye, at its current speed, it would take some 4,000 years to reach the angle of the Leaning Tower of PISA.
N7Y8M TIL Sharks are able to feel the harts of fish beating, so playing heavy metal (or other music with low, rumbling frequency) will attract sharks, as they think the music is fish.
w4GP TIL that mafia capo Gregory Scarpa was recruited by the FBI to help find the bodies of three civil rights workers. Scarpa got the locations of the bodies after he kidnapped a Klansman, pistol-whipped him and stuck a gun in his mouth
woXv8 TIL After Leonardo da Vinci's death in 1519, his half-brother Bartolomeo attempted to replicate his genius by fathering a son by a woman from the same village as Leonardo's mother. The boy, Pierino da Vinci, was raised in one of Florence's finest art studios but sadly died young.
PYbrn TIL that many European maps during the Middle Ages had the East on top instead of the North, thus "to orient" meant to align the map to the East, the Orient.