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TIL that Brad Pitt tore his Achilles tendon whilst filming a fight scene for Troy… as Achilles.

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Q4bk TIL in May of 1945, a Sunday School Teacher and 5 children became the only Mainland Casualties of WWII when they found a Japanese “Balloon Bomb” in Rural Oregon. The last words of the Teacher were: “Look what I found, dear”
rRAQ0 TIL of the Great Whiskey Fire of Dublin that killed 13 people in 1875. None perished as a result of smoke inhalation or burns. All victims died of alcohol poisoning by drinking the whiskey flowing through the streets.
ZpbD TIL that one of the most powerful actors in Hollywood, worth $6bn, has never been in a big, blockbuster film, is almost completely unknown, and almost no-one knows who he is.
woYRY TIL a monk was killed in around 391 AD when he leapt into the arena to stop a gladiator fight, which led to the emperor issuing a ban on gladiator bouts throughout the Empire.
rR0Re TIL that dinosaur fossils have been in space twice: a hadrosaur in 1985 and a Coelophysis in 1998