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TIL Elijah Wood was 18 when he started filming as Frodo

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neEXB TIL: Dwayne Johnson "aka: The Rock" began his acting and wrestling career after being cut from the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He would later say "Sometimes, your biggest dreams that don’t come true are the best things that never happened."
69v5w TIL Crablike bodies are so evolutionarily favorable that they’ve evolved at least five different times (carcinization)
9wkap TIL about Bicameral Mentality, a hypothesis which argues that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be “speaking”, and a second part which listens and obeys.
9YQxM TIL about Operation Yellow Ribbon - where Canada grounded 230+ planes as quickly as possible on 9/11 to keep them out of US airspace and away from potential targets. Canadians hosted thousands of passengers stranded in Canada until U.S. airspace was reopened.
kOpR5 TIL that drug lord Pablo Escobar had so much cash that rats ate almost $1 billion of his money each year