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TIL Japan is home to a 105-year-old sprinter and he hopes to race Usain Bolt one day.

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ne697 TIL that in the 1940s, actress Joan Hickson appeared in an Agatha Christie play, following which the author sent her a note reading “I hope one day you will play my dear Miss Marple. 41 years later, Hickson was cast as Miss Marple in a BBC series of Marple adaptations.
wpeJ TIL there’s a conspiracy theory that Belgium doesn’t exist
8ekOK TIL that a small tree called Flaveleira, Cnidoscolus quercifolius, common name is the source of the term "favela" for a type of low-income informal settlement in Brazil.
jNl1Q TIL: Pierce Brosnan could have played James Bond earlier in The Living Daylights but had to return to Remington Steele because it got popular due to Brosnan's offer to play James Bond. Timothy Dalton was given the role instead.
eJeE TIL That Samsung has built a sentry gun which sits in the Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea, which is hostile to anyone it senses who cannot provide an authorised access code