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TIL: Stephen King wrote over 15 books in his career!

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XEEJ6 TIL John Williams has 50 Oscar nominations and 5 wins, which averages him one nomination for every three films he has composed. He also has more Oscar nominations than any other living person.
b6kmE TIL that in Yukon, Canada, there is a "desert" between mountains and forests. Despite the name, scientifically is not a desert in the traditional sense, are dunes created by glaciers 24,000 years ago, but locals nickname the place as "the world smallest desert".
QNkdd TIL René Auberjonois, who played Odo in Deep Space Nine, is the great-great-great-grand nephew of Napoleon
BrwVk TIL that the African Spiny Mouse can release it's skin (like a lizard releases it's tail) on attack and completely regrow it. This feature, which is called autotomy, has given hope for replicating regeneration capabilities in humans. The African Spiny Mouse is the only known mammal, to do this.
QNAXe TIL When the French decided to dig up all the kings from Saint Denis in 1793, they found that the body of Henri IV was so well preserved that a someone took a piece of his moustache "as a memento". His head was reportedly moved and rediscovered multiple times since, last found in an attic in 2009