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TIL the word “biceps” is singular (and thus “bicep” is grammatically incorrect). The plural form of “biceps” is “bicepses” (emphasis on the first syllable).

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vPB57 TIL in the book that 101 Dalmatians was based on, there were 4 adult Dalmatians and 97 puppies instead of 2 adults and 99 puppies. While two of the adult dogs were named Pongo and Perdita, they weren't mates with each other but with two dogs named "Missis" and "Prince", both absent from the film.
9w0y6 TIL: Mick Jackson, director of kooky ‘90s Steve Martin romcom, ‘LA Story’, is the same guy who directed the notoriously trauma-inducing British TV movie about nuclear apocalypse, ‘Threads’. These two films could not be more different if they tried.
nWKNY TIL of Ruth Belville, the Greenwich Time Lady. Her family helped to keep London running on time by traveling to the Greenwich observatory every day and then charging businesses and individuals a subscription to synchronize their watch and clocks to GMT. The service lasted from 1836 to 1940.
VBY50 TIL During production of The Godfather, James Caan was known to hang out with Carmine Persico, aka "The Snake", a notorious mafioso and later head of the Colombo crime family. Government agents briefly mistook Caan, who was relatively unknown at the time, as an aspiring mobster.
Bgmny TIL The Rolling Stone's bassist Bill Wyman's son married Bill's ex-wife's mother. Consequently, he became his own sons' ex-son in law, the father in law of his ex- mother in law, and the step- grandfather of his ex-wife.