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TIL only one person in recorded history has been struck by a meteorite.

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4kvBN TIL that the cornfield in the beginning of Interstellar was planted specifically for the movie and sold for a profit
wAWo TIL Mr Bean’s humour truly crosses language and cultural barriers; a friend of Rowan Atkinson’s was in a poor African village during the 90s when she heard loud laughter coming from a shack. She went in & discovered most of the village gathered around a fuzzy black & white TV watching Mr Bean.
x6b5 TIL Churchill declared “Mr. President, I have nothing to hide from you” while standing naked in front of FDR.
RD44 TIL Robert Watson Watt, pioneer of Radar, was caught speeding at the age of 64, by a cop with a Radar gun.
kwNW TIL The Plasma Television was invented before the Second World War (1936). It’s creator would later go on to invent and design the first automatic, pilotless, aircraft.