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TIL that it was only after Mel Gibson personally underwrote Robert Downey Jr's liability insurance that his career took off again

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Kdn4 TIL: Today I learned that the new British citizenship test demands knowledge of Monty Python and the Beatles
v1BvD TIL the Dinkleberg's from the Nickelodeon show Fairly Odd Parents is a reference to D.I.N.K., meaning Dual Income No Kids, which refers to married couples like the Dinklebergs who have large amounts of money due to not spending it on kids.
R7PLw TIL that animals have accents!
dDje9 TIL In the 16th century upper class women wore Visards when outside. The black, oval masks kept their faces from getting tanned, which was associated with the poor. Attached to it was a string with a glass bead a woman would hold in her mouth to keep the mask on.
xVBEB TIL Inter Milan and Bayern Munich have had at least one player in the World Cup final since 1982.