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TIL the horns hand gesture was made fashionable in heavy metal cultre by Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath), who says it was used by his Italian grandmother to ward off evil

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x6P7b TIL of Irene of Athens (750-803 CE), the first sole-ruling empress in Roman history. Her husband the emperor having died, she had her son's eyes gouged, and him imprisoned, becoming sole ruler for 5 years, when she was exiled to the island of Lesbos and forced to support herself by spinning wool.
R5WZ4 TIL The African continent is being split in two by a 46 km (35 mile) long crack and will be two seperate land massess in a couple of million years.
E1pE7 TIL, a new technology was created for the film Inside Out, a virtual camera lens based on an actual camera lens, so that the animation appears to be filmed on an actual camera
JWNj TIL that multivitamins have been found to have “no overall benefit”. This is based on several meta-analyses, authoritative reviews, and expert panel reports.
JY068 TIL Alex McLeish, Ex-Rangers Football Club Manager, was told by his son whom was an ardent player of the football managing simulator ‘Football manager’ to sign a player from Barcelona B. Alex McLeish ignored the advice and claimed, ‘We’ll never hear about him again’. The player was Lionel Messi.