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TIL in 2015 a Panther tank, an anti-aircraft gun, a torpedo, and many other WWII-era items were found in the basement of a pensioner in Germany

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ep08E TIL when actor Chazz Palminteri was 9yrs old living in the Bronx, he witnessed a mobster get killed in front of his apartment building. He included the incident in a one man play he wrote and starred in that Robert Deniro saw. They decided to turn it into the movie "A Bronx Tale".
nemJ7 TIL the generation who grew up watching black-and-white TV experienced predominantly colourless dreams, until the widespread of colour television in the 1960s.
ADejw TIL the IRA tried to kill the UK Cabinet in 1991 by launching 3 mortar shells at 10 Downing Street from a specially modified Ford Transit van. One missed by 30 yards. Had any of the shells hit the target, it's likely the entire UK cabinet would have been killed
j6jE TIL that the U.S. Navy lent the Village People a ship for a music video, hoping they would use it as a recruitment tool.
QJ7md TIL: Lenovo is owned by the Chinese Government (30% shares) and no longer IBM (18.9% shares)