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TIL the most complex word in the English dictionary is the word ‘set’ with over 430 definitions in the Oxford English dictionary

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b89p TIL because President Kennedy had named From Russia with Love among his ten favourite books of all time, producers Broccoli and Saltzman chose this as the second Bond movie. From Russia with Love was the last film Kennedy saw at the White House on 20 November 1963 before going to Dallas.
7wJO TIL that Bob Denver allowed Make-a-Wish kids to rescue him from an island. In full Gilligan costume.
5n7p TIL that in 1976, North Korean soldiers murdered two American officers who were trying to trim a tree in the DMZ. The U.S. responded by sending a 813-man task force to cut the tree down.
7RkP TIL that while filming “The African Queen” in the Congo, everyone on the crew became very ill with dysentery from drinking the water; everyone except Humphrey Bogart, who only drank whiskey
aw7Ro TIL of Fazal Din, a British Indian Army soldier who was impaled by the sword of a Japanese officer . He pulled out the sword, killed the officer who stabbed him and another enemy soldier, destroyed an entire enemy position, and walked 25 yards with a hole in his chest to deliver his report.