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TIL that London's M25 motorway loop is broken at the River Thames, where it becomes the less restricted A282 in order to allow non-motorway traffic to use the Dartford Crossing

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4koEg TIL that in 1986, a French woman invested several months of her time to gain the necessary qualifications to operate a helicopter. She then proceeded to rent one, fly it over a prison, and successfully extract her husband, a convicted bank robber, from the prison's roof.
4xD6 TIL the actors that played Jon Snow and Ygritte fell in love on set and are currently a couple.
gr1AA TIL "First Man" screenwriter Josh Singer interviewed Neil Armstrong's wife Janet, who died two months before the release of the 2018 movie. Janet's anger during Neil's mission was real, as seen in her outburst to NASA men, "You're just a bunch of boys making models out of balsa wood!"
rRJey TIL James Franco has a mutation on a gene that allows him to sleep for about half the time that we normally need
Nnp1 TIL that as of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated over $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime, which is more than one third of his current net worth of $82. billion.