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TIL Doune Castle in Scotland, where Monty Python filmed "Holy Grail" movie, rents coconut shells to tourists

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8axMG TIL During WWII, there was a unit of Japanese schoolgirls who looked after Kamikaze pilots before they went on suicide missions. Called the Nadeshiko, they were aged between 14-15 and lived and worked on a military base with the men, preparing meals and befriending them before they went to die.
ADwEn TIL In Jurassic park (1993), the insect trapped in amber and which made the cloning of dinosaur possible was actually elephant mosquito. It's the only mosquito that doesn't suck blood, so cloning wasn't actually possible.
YplLx TIL that New Zealand's most decorated battalion in WW2 is the 28th, or the Māori Battalion. They were renowned for their fierce fighting spirit and extreme bravery, such that Rommel is even rumored to have said: "Give me the Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world".
9YMKG TIL György Dózsa was executed extremelly cruelly. They made him sit on a heated iron throne and wear a heated iron crown. Then they made his rebel soldiers bite and eat his flesh while priests were singing songs.
m1nYy TIL Teller, of Penn and Teller, legally changed his birth name to just "Teller". He is only one of a few people to have a mononymous US passport.