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TIL when enlisting in the British army during WWII writer/actor Sir Peter Ustinov requested tank duty “because you can go into battle sitting down,” and as result his superiors concluded, “On no account must this man be put in charge of others.” so he was assigned to the infantry instead

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mxLKx TIL about a tigress Machli who killed a 4.26 meters (14 feet) crocodile.
E1pwx TIL more than 20 people have died after getting stuck in donation boxes in the US and Canada over the past dozen years.
7rexZ TIL When you stop smoking weed, you're going to experience a huge increase in your dreams and their vividness due to your brain trying to catch up on all the missed REM sleep for the next 2-7 weeks.
QydX TIL Harrison Ford has used his helicopter to come to the rescue of real-world hikers in distress once by saving a woman on top of an Idaho mountain and once by joining a search and rescue mission for a 13-year-old Boy Scout lost in the woods.
alQy TIL that while working on Star Wars TFA, Carrie Fisher gave Daisy Ridley this piece of advice: “you should fight for your outfit. Don’t be a slave like I was.”