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TIL the entire state of Montana has one area code

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wL6BE TIL that elements within the Japanese Imperial Navy originally planned to assassinate British entertainer Charlie Chaplin during his visit with the Japanese PM in order to provoke a war with the US but Chaplin was not present when the PM was killed.
rLx0 TIL in 2011 a Gurkha single-handedly held off 12 Taliban as they attacked his base. Alone on the roof, he fought ‘an onslaught of rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s’. He fired over 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine. After his gun failed, he threw his tripod to fend a man off.
6XnX TIL - “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” - Rather than rely on CGI, Burton wanted the 40 squirrels in the Nut Room to be real. They began their coaching while newborns, fed by bottles to form relationships with human trainers.
6aQl TIL the first service animal training schools were established in Germany during World War I to enhance the mobility of returning veterans who were blinded in combat.
oR9Z7 TIL Macaulay Culkin held an internet poll asking what he should legally change his middle name to, and the winner was “Macaulay Culkin”, so he legally changed his name and it’s been Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin ever since.