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TIL that British Rail once held up a train for 20 minutes so that a distraught man could get to his mother in hospital before she died.

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xRQB TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup, Benfica coach Béla Guttmann asked for a pay rise. When denied, he allegedly cursed the club and said: “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached EIGHT European Cup finals and lost all of them.
mO9E TIL Human beings are the only primates whose numbers are not in decline
9eeB TIL that a 17 year old girl fell 2 miles after the airplane she was in exploded due to a lightning strike. She managed to walk for 10 days until she was found by lumberjacks.
6EgOJ TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
xV1n7 TIL the reason drummers have such a hard time playing exactly like Ringo Starr is because he’s a left handed drummer playing on a right handed set.