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TIL that the accent commonly found in 30’s and 40’s films was a made-up mix between American and British English, known as Mid-Atlantic English.

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Q096 TIL after getting lost in the desert a man tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists, he was so dehydrated his blood clotted the wounds. 9 days later he was rescued 186 miles (299km) away and had lost 40lbs (18kg) living off his urine, bats and snakes.
nDEY TIL a dog in Spain waited for his master outside a hospital for 12 years, unaware that his master had died.
8aJeK Today I learned about how glamorous commercial aviation was before WWII, with inter-continental flights in the Pan-Am Clipper. As glamorous as taking a cruise ship, but in a plane that landed on water.
wok7W TIL The Assassin of Korean Activist Kim Koo Was Later Murdered with a Wooden Club Inscribed with the Words "Justice Stick"
5VWeP TIL the sex worker arrested with Hugh Grant earned $1.6 million from publicity related to her arrest and used the money to buy a home in Beverly Hills and put her daughters through private school.