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

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X9kQ TIL that the first person to win the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” used none of his lifelines until the million dollar question. He used phone-a-friend to call his dad and tell him that he was about to win and then answered the question correctly without help.
vPdg8 TIL The French cartoonist Nadar was the first person to take aerial photographs, shooting from a balloon, and the first to take photographs underground, taking pictures of the Paris Catacombs.
Dymr TIL - Nature is so good at evolving critters that aren’t crabs into crab-like things there’s a term for it: Carcinisation
oQPL TIL in 1512, a horribly deformed baby was born in the city of Ravenna, and then was starved to death by order of the Pope
eR0b TIL an episode of Rocko’s Modern Life taking place 17 years in the future aired 17 years ago on this date