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TIL about Grand Theft Hamlet, a documentary where two unemployed actors put on a full production of Hamlet — staged and filmed entirely inside the video game Grand Theft Auto Online (2013)

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lobnr TIL the Resusci Anne (CPR doll) is based on an actual person's face, who lived over 100 years ago.
4kdgo TIL in 1942, the British government bought ALL the black tea available on the european market, considering it essential for the morale of their troops in North Africa
nevnr TIL that sharks respond to affection similar to dogs, and enjoy pets!
BwQD TIL Michael Caine served in the infantry during the Korean War. When he was asked about it all he’ll say is he proved to himself he wasn’t a coward.
QLWa TIL that Researchers have calculated that DNA has a 521 year half-life, meaning the oldest clone-able samples of DNA could be no more than 2 million years old, ruling out any possibility of ever replicating dinosaurs, as the youngest dinosaurs were around more than 65 million years ago.