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TIL Nicolas Cage was once stalked by a mime.

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Zp5DR TIL in 1964, a country changed names during the Olympics. It entered the Olympics as Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate, and left as Zambia, becoming fully independent on the day of the closing ceremony. The athletes marched in the ceremony with a new placard featuring the word "Zambia".
GALZQ TIL the founder of Oakley Sunglasses also founded RED Digital Cinema, the makers of high end cinema cameras popular with YouTubers.
mx0Mx TIL all Speaker's gavels in the US Congress are made by the House Carpentry Shop, which also makes all the seals and signs around the capitol building.
v1yj4 TIL about Unit 731, a Japanese complex that during WW2 performed lethal biological and chemical experiments to over 3000 people, carrying out some of the most notorious war crimes in Japanese history.
KOByB TIL that in 1876, Sigmund Freud dissected 400 eels looking for testicles. To this day, the eel's mating habits remain a scientific mystery.