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TIL Audrey Hepburn was a ballet prodigy as a child, but after five years of malnutrition due to German occupation during WWII, she was permanently too weak to dance, so she turned to acting.

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NXEZ8 TIL about Hugh Thompson Jr, the Hero of My Lai. During the Vietnam war he stopped the massacre of My Lai perpetrated by US forces upon unarmed civilians at My Lay and rescued several civilians. He and his crew even held US soldiers at bay with guns as he rescued a 6 year old among a pile of corpses.
oB1r8 TIL: The grass at Wimbledon was kept two inches long until 1949 when an English tennis player was bitten by a snake.
E1ANp TIL that hog rectum and calamari have a taste and texture similar enough to be hard to tell apart
BgQRk TIL that veins only appear blue because if the way wavelengths of light hit the skin
pY5We TIL Since 1884 Twenty-Three Human Babies Have Been Born With A "Tail"