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TIL Jack Nicholson thought he was raised by a mother and a sister, but in reality they were his grandma and mother.

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jN51v TIL about the only woman name to appear on the Declaration of Independence, Mary Katherine Goddard. She was the second printer of the Declaration of Independence and was the first to include the names of the signatories. She was also removed from her Postmaster position because she was a woman.
rRlN1 TIL in the past 42 years over 51 million trees have been planted in Kenya by the Green Belt Movement founded by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Maathai.
rRPPw TIL lactose tolerance is a genetic mutation where a cytosine (C) nucleotide in a person's DNA is replaced with a thymine (T) nucleotide allows them to digest milk, not the other way around.
8aQOV TIL that the mom of Monty Python's John Cleese had such a temper that his "Dad, who had fought in the first World War for three and a half years, sometimes yearned for the relative tranquility of the trenches."
kOAD7 TIL that the survival rate on the Titanic was 50% for children and 75% for women but only 20% for men.