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TIL Sean Connery single handedly beat 4 men in a night club while Michael Caine held his coat.

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PYvMO TIL the 1987 Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland which killed 10 civilians including elderly attendees was met with such condemnation the IRA apologised for the attack, disbanded the unit responsible and admitted it had made a mistake.
DQgje TIL that Mu is mythical lost sunken continent that was hypothesized to once have existed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in essence the Pacific's version of Atlantis
DQoKg TIL Kangatarianism is a vegetarian diet that cuts out meat except Kangaroo on environmental and ethical grounds
mJox TIL There’s a bar in Ireland that opened in the year 900 A.D. and is still operational. It’s named “Sean’s Bar”
6905l TIL Pope Leo X had a beloved pet elephant who died at the age of 6, with the Pope by his side, when they tried to treat his constipation with gold-enriched laxatives. The pope wrote a poem for him as an epitaph and Raphael made his portrait