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TIL that Chaim Topol was 36 when he filmed Fiddler on the Roof.

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7r4VO TIL that No Kum-Sok, the first pilot to defect with an operational aircraft, received a $100,000 reward from Operation Moolah in 1953. He landed the wrong way on the runway: had he tried to land in the right direction, he would have been spotted and shot down.
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