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TIL that a Florida man recognized himself in the background in the iconic cover of Abbey Road

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R5ZRl TIL Among other ships used in the production of the film “The Battle of the River Plate”, the warships HMS Cumberland and HMNZS Achilles played themselves since they had both survived the war.
OoB04 TIL John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, was Keanu Reeve's stunt double in The Matrix
8eb0a TIL the First Battery-Powered Electric Motor was Invented in 1834 By Thomas and Emily Davenport. In 1837, they Patented a Machine to Run a Printing Press. In 1840, "The Electro-Magnetic and Mechanics Intelligencer,' the First Magazine ever Printed using Electricity.
p8W4 TIL That 38% of the 911 calls made in New York in 2010 was by “Butt-dials”
n91o TIL that due to a compressed air leak, a worker in a subway tunnel under New York City’s East River was blown out of the tunnel, through the mud at the bottom of the river, up through the water, and 25 feet or so into the air. He received no serious injury.