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TIL Dame Maggie Smith was only 57 years old during the filming of Hook (1991) and was aged with makeup to appear as the much older Wendy Darling

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EgoXo TIL that Tommy Maddox left the NFL after five unsuccessful years as a QB, and became an insurance agent. Two years later, an arena football team asked him to play. Maddox sold his agency and accepted the offer. He eventually returned to the NFL and helped the Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XL.
aw89L TIL the teeth of thousands of young men being killed on Europe’s battlefields were taken by scavengers and shipped back to England to be used as donor's teeth. This was seen as patriotic.
wX17 TIL Ethiopians are genetically 62% white and only 24% black and also part Asian.
P74Z TIL For the last 30 years EVERY member of Congress has received monthly copies of Hustler Magazine.
D16Qp TIL that in 1995 a Norwegian scientific rocket-launch caused Russia to panic believing it was a US nuclear attack with the 'nuclear briefcase' being delivered to Boris Yeltsin