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TIL The Big Ben's unique tone is because the bell had cracked in 1859, barely two months after its inauguration. The bell is since oriented in such a way the hammer doesn't strike the 'crack'

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BOXr TIL The US Army Special Forces have a training exercise where they have to liberate a fake country called “Pineland” in the style of a LARP. Since the exercise is based within an actual town, actual civilians are often called upon to preform roles such as shopkeepers or torturers.
j6rRv TIL that despite their presence in pop culture, the Nine Realms of Norse cosmology are never clearly defined or listed in any of the sources of old Norse folklore that survived to the modern day
oY0E TIL that during the Normandy Allied Invasion Bill Millin, a Scottish Piper, played his bagpipes as he walked the beach while the carnage erupted around him. He later asked captured German prisoners why they hadn’t shot at him. They said they thought he was on a suicide mission and was clearly mad.
Qbyd TIL when contestants are kicked off of Gordan Ramsey’s show “Hell’s Kitchen”, they are giving psychological examinations. The show is so draining that the producers want to make sure the contestants won’t kill themselves or someone else.
gMnPD TIL that film score composer Hans Zimmer saw the Lion King as a metaphor of a son loosing his father at a young age, which tragically also happened to him. "Suddenly I am writing a requiem for my father, and the whole thing became intensely personal”. The score landed him an Oscar for best music.