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TIL Charlize Theron has an American accent because she only spoke Afrikaans at home and “learned to speak English properly in the US”.

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4XMN TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud
QJJNa TIL that society collapsed on Easter Island largely due to deforestation. One of the main reasons for this was that the trees were logged to move the giant Moai figures into position.
KYQAw TIL that the closer a mother's second and forth fingers are in length, the more likely it is that she will have sons
a8jvJ TIL that Norman Borlaug, an agricultural scientist, developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat that helped prevent famine and is credited with saving over 1.2 billion lives. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.
l7LZA TIL that a Sig Alert was developed in 1955 because the LAPD refused to notify radio stations of traffic disruptions, requiring stations to call in, thus tying up the phone lines and requiring officers to constantly repeat the same information.