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TIL that the British actor Harry H. Corbett famous for starring in the sitcom Steptoe and Son, reportedly killed two Japanese soldiers in hand to hand combat during World War Two.
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TIL in July 2023, an unopened, first edition model of the 2007 iPhone was sold at auction in the US for $190,372.80, nearly 400 times the original price.
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TIL Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg) was fluent in French, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, Greek and Italian.
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TIL that the actors in Alfred Hitcock’s, The Birds, the actors were really attacked by 3,200 trained birds.
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TIL when you cross a Zebra and a Donkey they make a Zonkey because they belong to the same genetic group but only when it is sired by a male Zebra with a female Donkey. If it's a male Donkey and female Zebra their offspring is known as a Zedonk.
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TIL that the Magyarab people are a community living in Nubia, along the Nile in Sudan and Egypt, that have distant Hungarian ancestors who intermarried with locals in the 16th century.
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TIL that the Odd Fellows have a fascinating history undocumented before the 18th century, and there are theories about the origins of their name ranging from the niche professions of founding members to how their values of fraternalism, benevolence and charity weren't common in the 18th century.
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TIL That “The Ton” in Bridgerton is Mayfair on the Monopoly board.
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TIL that during the inter-war era, it was the British and not the Germans, who were the world leaders in tank design and the organisation of armoured forces.
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TIL in 2010, the Chinese dating game show If You Are The One spawned a very popular quote, "I would rather cry in a BMW".
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TIL that before SpaceX was allowed to land the Falcon9 rockets at Vandenberg California, they had to test if the native sea lions would be bothered by the sonic booms
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TIL during the music festival Woodstock '94, it rained all weekend long and turned the grassy venue into mud. Green Day started a mud fight with the crowd during their set, which ended with fans charging the stage, and bassist Mike Dirnt getting a tooth knocked out.