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TIL Michael Caine’s real name is Maurice Micklewhite.

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N86E TIL some moths make noises similar to bat echolocation, which scares female moths into sitting perfectly still, making them an easier target for mating.
4k1Vo TIL Adam Scott has podcasts called “U Talkin' Talking Heads 2 My Talking Head” and “U Springin' Springsteen On My Bean?” discussing Talking Heads and Bruce Springsteen, among other artists.
05E5 TIL that of the 196 countries in the world, 59 of them gained independence from the United Kingdom.
WkLdo TIL when John Connally died in 1993, there was a petition to recover the fragments of the bullet that hit him in Kennedy's assassination, hoping to disprove the single bullet theory. Department of justice replied that it would approve if Connally's family gave permission, which they refused to give.
6NEm TIL 30-ft-long Manatees called Steller’s Sea Cows lived into modernity… within 27 years of being found by European hunters, they were extinct.