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TIL that Wembley stadium used to be called Empire Stadium

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4rZo TIL the Voltaire quote co-opted by the far-right movement, “to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise” is actually a false quote attributed to Voltaire, and was likely first used by White Supremacist Kevin Strom in 1993, 215 years after Voltaire’s death.
OGBL4 TIL: Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the original Star Trek theme song
L06v TIL That Jackie Chan did the voice acting and singing for the Chinese dub of “Beauty and the Beast” (1991).
6EJMQ TIL: The Blue Ringed Octopus is both venomous and poisonous thanks to the neurotoxin Tetrodotoxin
6mmw TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary lists words with the suffix ’-ize’ (e.g., realize, organize) over the more popular British English ’-ise’, stating it to be both phonetic and closer to its Greek origin