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TIL the name "British Isles" is considered controversial today, with replacements including "these islands", "Britain and Ireland" and "Anglo-Celtic Isles"

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a6Xy TIL Flash Gordon retired from acting and now does corporate security and hostage extraction in Mexico
6P4w TIL the inventor of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) was arrested in the US for violation of arms-export laws. His crime: he came up with good cryptography for communications and made it available worldwide, which was considered aiding the enemy with munition.
mLZP TIL Samuel Johnson wrote a dictionary in 1755, in which he defined oats as: “A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.” A Scottish man was said by Sir Walter Scott to have retorted, “Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?”
40pX TIL that the first Amazon.com customer spent $27.95 and got a building named after him
4VN6 TIL an extra from Hobo With A Shotgun had been blind from birth. He had recently had eye surgery to fix it and the first thing he ever saw was a scene from the film being shot.