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TIL Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman
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TIL In Baby Driver (2017), a security guard was played by Joe Loya, an ex-convict that got jailed for robbing 30 to 40 banks, who worked on the movie as a technical adviser. He also worked closely on the script with director Edgar Wright.
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TIL that a Tortise given to the Royal family by captain Cook in 1777 died in 1965
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TIL in 2016 an astronomer convinced Alaska Airlines to shift a flight time 25 minutes so it would pass through the path of totality for a solar eclipse. They even washed all the windows on the right side of the plane.
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TIL of the only remaining absolute monarchy in Africa. The kingdom of Eswatini, formerly named Swaziland, was established in 1745 and is named after Mswati II, who expanded and unified the kingdom through military conquests. Swaziland adopted a constitution in 1968 but it was annulled by the king.
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TIL a man in Sweden receives disability benefits due to his “addiction to Heavy Metal”.