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TIL Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was named after Ronald Reagan.

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jNRlE TIL that the US Navy used to forbid "obscene" tattoos, which led to a boom in tattoos of nude women among men who didn't want to serve. If they joined the navy later, they had to have a tattoo artist "dress" the woman.
b95b0 TIL that the song whistled throughout The Great Escape has lyrics attributed to an Anglo-Irish propagandist named Toby O'Brien. "Hitler has only got one ball, Göring has two but very small, Himmler is rather sim'lar, But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all"
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6E8OW TIL Old Billy lived to 62 years old. He was born in 1760 and died in 1822. He is believed to be the oldest horse that ever lived.