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TIL that Princess Diana's funeral was watched by approximately 2.5 billion people, which, in 1997, was about 43% of the entire population of Earth.

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QJRwp TIL of the violent episode of the civil rights movement, the Orangeburg Massacre. On February 8, 1968, a civil rights protest at South Carolina State University turned deadly when 3 young men were killed, 28 people wounded, shot as they fled the assault by law enforcement.
9YpxM TIL that toward the end of his career, acclaimed film director Sam Peckinpah, whose work includes The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, and Straw Dogs, was so desperate for money as a result of his drug habit that he agreed to direct a movie based on the 1975 trucker novelty song "Convoy."
mM4E TIL Lasers removal doesn’t ‘remove’ the tattoo. It just helps break it down so white blood cells can carry it away. Eventually, you poo out your tattoo.
JY78V TIL: Britain only finally settled its World War II debts to the US and Canada in December 2006 making payments of $83.25m (£42.5m) to the US and US$22.7m (£11.6m) to Canada.bbb
1ageO TIL that many historians believe the character of Robin Hood was based on the life of William Wallace. Studies have suggested that Wallace was a bowman, was known to be a poacher, and had a girlfriend called Mirren (which is Scots for Marion)