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TIL an Aboriginal man planted a flag on the cliffs of Dover in 1988 and claimed England for the Aborigines

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PYene TIL Oasis was once so popular in Britain that a single was released consisting entirely of the Gallagher brothers arguing during an interview, and the single hit #52 on the UK charts.
Ovwe TIL J.R.R. Tolkien started the Hobbit while grading examination papers. He found a blank page in one of the exams. Suddenly inspired, he wrote the words, “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.
l5oN TIL that the Church of Scientology has a compound in CA called Gold Base that is guarded by snipers and armed gate guards. It houses a prison that practices torture, and a paramilitary training school.
MjaB TIL in 2000, due to a Disney DVD “duplication error”, the Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box Set shipped to Costco Stores contained scenes from the R-rated romantic comedy movie “High Fidelity” inserted at a random point during Toy Story 2, in which the word “fuck” is used twice by John Cusack.
lvVr TIL that German police fired off 85 rounds of bullets in 2011, that’s the entire police force for the whole year