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TIL A machine in the Moscow subway dispenses a free ticket if you do 30 squats

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QNDYL TIL to his pique, but the merriment of his children, Winston Churchill found two of his cousins named on a list of arrested Nazi sympathisers
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Zjm4 TIL that the 2006 film The Ghost and The Darkness, about man-eating lions, was based on the real Tsavo Maneaters - two lions that killed 135 people in 1898.
RBQa TIL the British successfully destroyed a Nazi drydock by ramming a ship filled with six tons of explosives into it, leaving the ship wedged in the gates until the timers detonated the explosives.
nLWd TIL The rock at the summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone and would have been deposited on the seafloor around 450 million years ago.