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TIL Sesame Street created an episode in the wake of 9/11 in which Big Bird has to deal with his pen pal Gulliver, who does not believe birds should be friendly to other species

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GYLBN TIL During WW2 British prisoners captured by the Japanese were not allowed to sing, in an effort to stop the morale of the prisoners from getting to high, so they whistled instead, an example of this can be seen in the film "Bridge over the River Kwai".
gMYlL TIL that the GDP of London alone is more than twice that of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland combined.
grVe8 TIL that Moneymaker is a real surname
mvWy TIL that bystanders in China are afraid to help in an accident because a court precedent assigned blame to the helper
YpMvr TIL all chaps are by definition assless chaps