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TIL Laurence Olivier hit Maggie Smith in the face so hard she was knocked unconscious during a 1964 production of Othello.

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xVWMk TIL about the traffic-inducing game of “leapfrog” played between truck drivers, where they get points for accumulating “bugs” (car drivers) stuck behind them as they do their “leap” in the left lane past the other trucks. The record is a 57-bug trail of cars stuck behind the leaping truck for 29 min
ZXjo TIL there is a man who, due to auto-brewery syndrome, will get drunk from eating bread
v1KmL TIL about China's biggest drug bust. A 'Breaking Bad' village in China that had 77 Meth labs and 20% of the villagers involved in the production and supply of more than a third of China's Meth output. The local police protected the operation and used police vehicles to move drugs around.
baE7 TIL that Mayday procedure was originated Frederick Stanley Mockford which was given the task to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency.
e1nL TIL jeans originally had that extra pocket “as a protective sleeve for cowboys’ pocket watches.”