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TIL That the 'con' in con-artist means 'confidence'

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KOnnJ TIL of Stanley Hollis, the only British soldier to earn a Victoria cross medal for his actions on dday. He fought on multiple fronts during the war, killed hundreds of enemy troops, took out a tiger tank single-handed and on dday took out 2 pill boxes and captured multiple prisoners single-handed.
d8W49 TIL Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was caught forging documents simply because the font that was used didn’t exist at the time the documents were allegedly created
epgOn TIL in 2010 a two-tonne hippo escaped from a Montenegro zoo during a flood. After wandering around nearby farms for 10 days, she returned to her pen on her own accord. Her keepers had been keeping a close eye on her, giving her food when she came close to the zoo & covering her with hay at night.
9wwe7 TIL that swatting a fly without killing it may cause it pain for the rest of its life
4Xr9N TIL how Roald Dahl's name is actually pronounced. 'Roo-ahl', not 'r-ohl-d' or 'r-ahl-d'