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TIL about Le Club des Chefs des Chefs, an international culinary organisation of chefs to world leaders. Members include the chef of king Charles III, the head chef of the White House, the chefs of the presidents of India and South Africa

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AD8Vg TIL The Animals' cover of "The House of the Rising Sun," was recorded in just one take on May 18, 1964. Producer Mickie Most later stated, "everything was in the right place ... It only took 15 minutes to make so I can't take much credit for the production."
pY5wN TIL that the first attempt to make a Thomas & Friends TV show was cancelled after one episode in 1953. Among other problems, at one point during the live television broadcast a train was accidentally derailed and had to be replaced on camera.
1AVV TIL that the term “bug” is derived from the Middle English “bugge”, meaning beetle. Today, the word “bug” is a technical term, and describes any insect from the order Hemiptera.
WmyL TIL that Jackie Chan’s first movie appearance, Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (1962), was considered to be a lost film, as no known copies of the film existed. However, this was not the case, as on February 3rd, 2016, the entire movie was suddenly uploaded to YouTube.
7Xjb TIL the famous ‘risky selfie girl’, Russian girl Xenia Ignatyeva, who used to take selfies on top of high buildings and in other dangerous places with her boyfriend, actually died doing this. In 2014, she fell off a roof and landed on a live cable and got electrocuted to death.