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TIL that Dame Judi Dench has photographic memory and can recite entire Shakespeare plays from memory.

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J16PV TIL Germany, Italy and Japan were elected among others in 1986 to serve together on the U.N. Security Council for the first time. This marks the first time all three former Axis powers joining the council led by the victorious Allied powers of World War 2, all of which are permanent members.
N9eM TIL A man was once sued by United Airlines for making a site which helps people find cheaper flight tickets
8AeV TIL the government funded an experiment to determine wether or not dolphins could speak. This later escalated to the female researcher giving the dolphin handjobs and then later taking LSD with the dolphin.
D1YlJ TIL An Ohio judge once sentenced a woman to sit in the "stinkiest, smelliest" area of a garbage dump for 8 hours, as a punishment for neglecting her dog. "If you puke, you puke."
PY11g TIL cream soda is vanilla flavoured.