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TIL that Billy Zane's wife and sister are both named Lisa.

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1a50O TIL in 2017 a Qatar Airways plane had to make an emergency landing after a woman used her sleeping husband's thumb to unlock his phone and discovered he was cheating on her.
ZpDNo TIL There was an urban legend in the UK that Richard Bacon, the Blue Peter presenter who was fired for using cocaine, had snorted cocaine off the Blue Peter tortoise Freida during the run of the series
7rK7b TIL that it used to be a job to drive around the country, constantly, driving and measuring every road, grade, elevation, and distance, in order to keep road maps updating accurately every two weeks. "Road scouts" would drive enough miles in a year to make multiple trips to the moon.
oP08 TIL that the most powerful pirate in history was Ching Shih, a Chinese woman that commanded the Red Flag Fleet, which the British, Portuguese and the Qing dynasty were unable to defeat. She also instituted a Pirate Code.
RQD7 TIL Around 500 species of animals have been documented to engage in homosexual behaviour, including (and especially) Giraffes