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TIL Dolph Lundgren has a bachelors and masters degrees in chemical engineering, along with another bachelors in chemistry.

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neVeP TIL that during the thunderous applause following his famous 'We shall fight on the beaches' speech to the to the House of Commons in 1940, Winston Churchill whispered to a colleague, "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!".
NXxJ6 TIL In “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991), the skull on the movie poster is actually made of naked women – Salvador Dali’s “In Voluptas Mors.”
6EBnw TIL Mexico's official name is the United Mexican States
BlNe TIL: There is a small island in Shrewsbury, MA that doesn’t belong to anyone in particular. One local man is crusading to name it Busta Rhymes Island. When asked why, he said it was because the island had “rope-swinging, blueberries, and … stuff Busta would enjoy”.
0wXdv TIL Air Marshall Sir David Grahame Donald fell out of his Sopwith Camel at 6000 feet as he was attempting to fly in a loop. He free fell for 2000 feet before his plane, continuing the loop, happened to cross below him. He grabbed onto the plane and landed it.