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TIL the creator of Mad Max is also the creator of Happy Feet.

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GYeRQ TIL of Thomas Cochrane, a Scottish earl, who left the Royal Navy in disgrace, and then joined the Chilean Navy to help it fight for independence.
8wPK TIL that in spite of what countless ninja movies and animes would have us believe, Shuriken were used mostly for distraction rather than killing, and had plenty of uses other than those of a throwing weapon.
YEKv TIL it takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday edition of the New York Times.
OG9w1 TIL in 2012, Choi Gap-bok, a Korean yoga master escaped from prison by squeezing through the food slot at the bottom of his cell door. The slot was 5.9 inches tall and 17.7 inches wide. Choi applied skin oil to his body and slipped out while three guards were sleeping.
pYlwG TIL during WWII, Raymond Davies Hughes, a British RAF airman was captured by the Germans. He agreed to broadcast propaganda and was seen as reliable. The broadcasts were in Welsh and in English. Hughes was then court-martialed after the war for aiding the enemy.