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TIL Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman married model Mandy Smith when he was 52 and she was 18 after dating for 5 years. When they divorced, Wyman's oldest son married Smith's mother making the elder Smith both Wyman's daughter-in-law and ex-mother-in-law.

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Ox74 TIL Marlon Brando was in an acting class that was told to act like chickens and that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them. Most of the class clucked wildly, but Brando sat calmly and pretended to lay an egg. When Stella Adler asked why he said, “I’m a chicken, What do I know about bombs?”
pYnYO TIL eVscope users have the ability to participate in Citizen Science efforts led by the SETI Institute. The smart telescope technology (4.5 inch reflector) is sensitive enough to image the transit of exoplanets and the occultation of a star by a Trojan Asteroid
Oo6x1 TIL of André Tchaikowsky, a Polish pianist who donated his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company after his death, as he wanted it to be used for Yorick in productions of Hamlet. It took 26 years for his wishes to be realized as no one wanted to use it. In 2008, David Tennant finally used it.
jp9n TIL: the original Fido was a 1940s Italian street dog who became famous for his loyalty to his dead master, who died in a bombing. Fido waited 14 years at the bus station for him. The name means “faithful” in ancient Latin.
lopAG TIL one of the singers of Africa by the band Toto was also the singing voice of adult Simba in The Lion King. And he is the son of composer John Williams