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TIL the British Government forcibly deported a whole population out of an island to make way for a US military base

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R046 TIL When DeNiro beat out Bob Hoskins for the role of Al Capone in “The Untouchables”, De Palma mailed Hoskins a check for £20,000 with a “Thank You” note. Hoskins then asked him if there were any more movies he didn’t want him to be in.
PYAJV TIL About Frank Foley- the “British Schindler”. An intelligence officer in Berlin before WWII, he worked as a passport officer and is credited with saving “tens of thousands” of Jews by stamping as many of their passports as he could. He also went into internment camps and hid Jews in his home.
78Vax TIL that we store 3.7 billion internets worth of data in all of iur DNA strings put together
ZpyGv TIL the small town of Taihape, New Zealand is known as the "Gumboot Capital of the World" because a fictional farmer character is from there. It hosts an annual Gumboot Day festival and gumboot tossing competition.
JYBk1 TIL the "friendliness" gene mutation that distinguishes dogs from wolves causes Williams syndrome in humans, which causes hypersociality and reduced intelligence