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TIL of Philae 436, likely the very last ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs to be carved.

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b9QVE TIL that most of Sam Jones' lines in Flash Gordon were dubbed by another (unknown?) actor, after quitting before the movie was finished and that George Lucas had originally wanted to make it, but went to to film Star Wars instead, which also had a famously (deliberately, this time) dubbed actor. #20
E1egw TIL in Finnish folklore, most Gods and Goddesses appear as married couples with equal or overlapping realms, and thunder is caused when Ukko, the god of skies, and his wife, the earth mother Akka, are having sex
0JX5 TIL that every year in ancient Athens, citizens could vote to banish ANY person from the city-state for 10 years.
VV4 TIL of Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner who was involved in a fatal plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. It took 2 years for her to regain the ability to walk again, but in 1936 she rejoined the US Olympic relay team and took home the gold medal.
yVyQa TIL that the 1988 film “Willow” featured a two-headed dragon called an Eborsisk, meant to be a reference to film critics Siskel and Ebert. Siskel and Ebert gave the film two thumbs down.