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TIL that on the last flight of the Concorde, Jeremy Clarkson emptied a glass of water on Piers Morgan.

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4Z5R TIL people in the Soviet Union were so terrified to be the first to stop clapping after Stalin speeches that applause once went on for 11 minutes straight. The man who finally was first to stop was imprisoned for ten years.
mny TIL that the fruit fly has the longest sperm cell, 2.3 inches long.
0dryR TIL about Mehmet Ali Ağca. Dude murdered a journalist and shot Pope John Paul II, got released from prison, then went to the Vatican and asked to meet Pope Francis and write a book with Dan Brown.
1amp8 TIL about Admiral Thomas Cochrane, a Scotsman who served in the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars but dismissed after a scandal in 1814. He would later go on to lead the Chilean, Brazilian and Greek Navies in their respective wars of independence.
d8ePZ TIL the State of Washington once forced Comcast to refund nearly 50,000 customers for charging them a $5/month "service protection plan" that actually did nothing.