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TIL Margaret Thatcher’s son conspired with a private mercenary company to stage a coup in a West African country for oil money

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mx0Gv TIL the ‘farmer and his wife’ in the painting American Gothic actually represent a farmer and his daughter
0damA TIL Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) always ended scenes with co-star Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) by apologizing for his character's awful comments and behavior. Dance said Dinklage is "the most adorable man. After all those scenes, I apologize to him" because "I have to treat him like shit."
rNpyM TIL about Jonas Bendiksen, a photographer who published a book full of fake and manipulated images and also created a fake social media account to call out the forgeries after the book got celebrated by the biggest photography festival and companies.
rNXdd TIL Lawrence of Arabia's death in a motorcycle accident is indirectly responsible for crash helmet 'legislation for protective headgear by motorcyclists and subsequently in the workplace and for many sports worldwide'.
NXjW1 TIL about the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest prank, which was prank played by BBC on April Fool’s that made Britain believe that spaghetti grew on trees