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TIL that new Mail Pouch barns were painted as recently as 1992

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ygdJ TIL that during the Berlin Blockade in 1948 a pilot who was doing supply drops for the civilians became known as ‘Uncle Wiggly Wings’ after he started dropping candy and chocolate from his plane and wiggling his wings so people knew it was him.
NX5dE TIL of Charles Hawtrey who starred in the popular and lewd Carry On Films. Hawtrey was frequently drunk, and would swear and rip up the paper of those who asked him for autographs. Even as he lay dying, he threw a vase at a nurse who was a fan.
gr9KD TIL that stuntman Ted White was nearly 60 when he played Jason in Friday The 13th The Final Chapter. White requested not to be credited on screen for the role, because he didn’t like the way that the young actors and actresses were treated during production.
O7VL TIL there was a single in Billboard’s Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart for three weeks that no-one can find any evidence ever existed.
wjG6 TIL that because Koalas get so little energy from their diet of eucalyptus leaves, they limit their energy use and sleep 20 hours a day, with only 4 minutes a day being active. They spend most of their waking hours eating and sleeping from a single tree.