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TIL a sufragette once followed Winston Churchill everywhere he went and rang a bell every time he tried to speak in public.

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vQ8 TIL that the TARDIS materialisation sound is actually a house key scraping along a piano wire
v1Rv4 TIL Jadin Bell was a sophomore in high school, where he committed suicide due to excessive bullying. His father planned to walk across the country to spread awareness for bullying, where he was killed by a semi.
GY9OQ TIL of Chiune Sugihara, who was a Japanese diplomat who saved 6,000 Jews during WWII by issuing them transit visas, risking his own career and life to save others.
mxKrx TIL Junius Brutus Booth (father of the assassin) was a raging alcoholic and actor whose manager locked him up before plays to keep him sober. From a room Junius was locked in before one play, he bribed a bellboy to stand outside with brandy to drink it through the door’s keyhole using a small pipe.
XEodP TIL in 2015, when Daniel Craig was asked that would he do another Bond film after Spectre, he said he would “rather break this glass and slash my wrists” and would only come back “for the money”. A year later he apologized and said “If I were to stop doing it, I would miss it terribly."