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TIL When The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered in 1961, Mary Tyler Moore was 24 years old, portraying Laura Petrie, who was 17 at the time of her marriage to Rob Petrie. Dick Van Dyke was 35, playing Rob, whose age was implied to be in his early 30’s.

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ANOmw TIL in 1997 the Tamil Tigers discovered the Sri Lankan government had ordered 32,000 mortar shells from Zimbabwe, and sent one of their vessels to the Mozambique port of Beira to steal the consignment by pretending to be Sri Lankan officials. The bombs were later used against government forces.
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