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TIL most of singer Avril Lavigne's family comes from France and the small town of Saint-Jérôme in the French part of Canada, and her name "Avril" is the word for the month of April in French.

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m1WDE TIL George Clooney was asked to play himself in a sketch for the Movie 43 (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), and Clooney replied "No fucking way."
awNxo TIL that the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF, or the modern Japanese Navy) uses the same rising sun naval ensign that the Imperial Japanese Navy used before and during WWII.
yQKGw TIL of Jeanne de Clisson. After her husband was beheaded by the french, she sold all of her land and holdings to fund a pirate army. She hunted and destroyed all the French ships that they could. When she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
EwOX TIL that Ava Gardner once swam naked in a pool belonging to Ernest Hemingway. He ordered that the water never be changed.
Jx8Q TIL: After the war Hitler planned to build a monumental temple-like state building, the Volkshalle was to be so massive it would contain its own weather system. It would have rained inside during events due to the perspiration and breath of the 150,000 occupants.