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TIL Stephen Fry was best man at Hugh Laurie’s wedding (Dr. House) as well as Rowan Atkinson’s wedding (Mr. Bean), and attended the wedding of Prince Charles

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6lXX TIL in WW2, Owen Baggett shot down a Japanese Zero with a M1911 .45 caliber pistol. He killed the pilot who had just shot down his B24. The Zero had returned to kill the airmen who had parachuted out. Baggett, wounded, played dead until the plane got close enough and then he shot the pilot.
LQRVP TIL Globus pharyngeus is the persistent but painless sensation of having a pill, food bolus, or some other sort of obstruction in the throat when there is none.
0OkN TIL It only takes the first 39 digits of pi to calculate the circumference of the observable universe
XEV6E TIL that when German intelligence discovered the phrase "Killroy was here" during World War 2 Hitler believed Killroy was the name of a high-level Allied spy
W8a9 TIL There is a “white man” café in Tokyo, where Japanese ladies ring a bell to summon tuxedo-wearing caucasians who respond with “yes, princess?” and serve them cake.