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TIL Rockapella (of 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?' fame) is still active and touring.

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ajRA TIL British officers imprisoned in Colditz castle, an ‘escape-proof’ Nazi POW camp, tried to escape by tunneling out. They emerged instead in a German colonel’s wine cellar, where they proceeded to drink 137 bottles of wine, fill them with urine, and place them back on the shelves.
J1wXm TIL Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5 billion years
A7ew TIL 57% of the men mobilised in World War I died
0j6p TIL A World Trade Centre security officer Rick Rescorla anticipated attacks on the towers and implemented evacuation procedures credited with saving many lives. He died during the attacks of September 11, 2001, while leading evacuees from the South Tower.
woQKW TIL that the English (and later British) monarchs consistently styled themselves as King/Queen of France from Henry VI in 1422 to George III in 1801. The abolition of the French monarchy rendered the title useless.