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TIL Several of the scenes on Teletubbies had to be re-filmed due to the rabbits mating on screen

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wL0N6 TIL that WWII spy Odette Sansom was technically one of the first women in war. She was the second-ever female paratrooper as a spy for the "French resistance". In training, she learned how to kill one man in more than 100 ways, morse code, and encryption.
4A6w TIL during WW2, a German fighter ace noticed how a US B17 was too damaged to fight back, escorted it back to Britain, risking execution in the process. After the war, both pilots became best friends, whilst this event symbolised one of the greatest acts of chivalry in war
6EE9Z TIL at the beginning of his performance at Carnegie Hall, Andy Kaufman invited his “grandmother” to watch the show from a chair he had placed at the side of the stage. At the end of the show, she stood up, took her mask off and revealed that she was actually comedian Robin Williams in disguise.
R7l4a TIL a woman who opened an anger room in Dallas where people could destroy household items, was allegedly killed by her boyfriend due to assault.
5Y0Qr TIL The person who wrote the lyrics for the second and third Soviet national anthems, Sergey Mikhalkov, also lived to write the lyrics for the current national anthem of Russia.