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TIL Sean Bean survives more than he dies.

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GxeQ TIL, Burt Munro, a motorcycle racer & subject of the movie, ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’ (portrayed by Sir Anthony Hopkins), created the under-1,000 cc world record of 296.2593 km/h (184.087 mph) at Bonneville in 1967, which stands to this day. He was 68 years old and was riding a 47-year-old bike.
oRKo8 TIL despite the "Florence Nightingale Effect" being named for the English nurse, there are no records of her ever falling in love with a patient. The "syndrome" borrows her name because of her famous compassion and tenderness for her patients
AVrw TIL that those iconic X-shaped fortifications on the beaches at D-day were designed to tear open the bottoms of landing craft. The attack was expected to come at high tide, when they would be hidden under the water.
GARg TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the definition for “walrus” and many other W words in the Oxford English Dictionary.
VM6VB TIL about Ashley's Sack. Ashley, a slave, was sold at nine years old. Her mother provided a cotton sack as a parting gift. Telling her "it be filled with my love always", it contained a tattered dress, a handful of pecans, and a braid of her mother's hair.