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TIL it took Frederick Forsyth just over a month to write The Day of the Jackal

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788p TIL Sean Connery once stated “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman–although I don’t recommend doing it in the same way that you’d hit a man. If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it. ”
8aj1P TIL that in 2019, Brazilian pоlіce seized a parrot who had been taught to alert criminals to pоlіce operations by shouting: "Mum, the pоlіce!" After being seized, the parrot didn't cooperate with the pоlіce, staying completely silent and not saying anything
MGLb TIL the pallbearers at Billy Mays’ funeral wore blue shirts and khaki pants in tribute.
NXrOM Today I learned that early versions of the periodic table included a material called didymium as an element. It was later discovered that didymium was actually an alloy of praseodymium and neodymium.
GAm04 TIL former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is the sixth oldest father in human recorded history, after he conceived a child at the age of 89 in 2020.