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TIL Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem and her birth name is Neta-Lee Hershlag

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9w6A6 TIL that after reading the first draft of "Smokey and the Bandit", Burt Reynolds told its director Hal Needham that it was the worst script he had ever read, but that he would still make the movie. Most of the dialogue in the movie was improvised on set.
YpelP TIL that David Bowie was injured in his eye and developed a condition called anisocoria, where one pupil is a different size than the other. He was injured in a fight over a girl.
9YdgD TIL there was a cat shot for treason in WW1 because it went back and forth between the German and French trenches carrying friendly notes after the Christmas armistice
Ooobg TIL Bracken Cave (Texas) has the largest bat colony on Earth. The bats are a great benefit to cotton farmers in the region.
x6117 TIL that THC can be detected and quantified in the semen of men who are chronic users of inhaled cannabis.