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TIL Bill Bailey was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, not MJ. [12:53]

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691L8 TIL that one of Britain’s top post-war writers, Benjamin Zephaniah, declined an OBE appointment (Order of the British Empire), stating the honors were "a legacy of colonialism." Besides being a renowned poet, Zephaniah also appeared in “Peaky Blinders” for about 9 years as Jeremiah Jesus
gZA9 TIL that the cornea has no blood supply, and oxygen instead diffuses into it directly from the air.
aw9EA TIL there’s a cemetery in the Netherlands consisting of 8,300 US veterans who died in WWII. For the past 70 years, Dutch families have come to the cemetery every Sunday to care for a grave they adopted. Hundreds of people are currently on a waiting list to become caretakers.
7rQvZ TIL Fragging was a deliberate attempt to kill unpopular officers by soldiers throwing their own grenade at them.
1Oe4 TIL that kentucky has a population of “blue-skinned” people due to a genetic disorder caused by inbreeding