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TIL Actress Hayley Atwell got her drivers licence photo taken in full ''Peggy Carter'' makeup.

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xVaa1 TIL Juan García, deliberately became a double agent against the Nazi's during WWII. He was so good he was awarded medals by both sides in the war. He convinced the Nazi's the D-Day landing was a diversion for an attack in Pas de Calais, so they kept large forces there before and after the invasion.
4WOX TIL that sharks are older than trees. “Modern” trees lived around 350 million years ago while sharks have existed for 400 million years
VRyB TIL that all time travel movies are banned in China.
R7GE9 TIL that, right now, 9 languages a year, or one every 40 days, goes extinct and soon we will be losing our linguistic heritage at the rate of 26 languages each year—one every two weeks.
MLN8 TIL in 1926 a Pasadena mailman planted some avocado seeds intending to graft with the desirable Fuerte variety. The graft repeatedly failed on one tree and he was going to cut it down, but was advised to “wait and see what happens”. It became the mother tree from which all Hass avocados originate.