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TIL Russell Crowe was once contacted by the FBI about Al Qaeda wanting to kidnap him to take “iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural destabilisation plan.” Russel Crowe isn’t American though. He’s originally from New Zealand.

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9Y0Dm TIL Ho Chi Minh, leader of the communist party in Vietnam, was witnessed by American advisors on September 2, 1945, giving a speech repeating the 2nd paragraph of Jefferson's 1776 Declaration of Independence. That's why the current official motto of Vietnam is "Independence, Freedom, and Happiness."
JVM4 TIL “Monty Python And The Holy Grail” was funded entirely by British rock stars, among them Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Elton John
PYPge TIL Epona was one of the only Celtic goddesses to be worshiped all around the Roman Empire (and not just the name of Link's horse)
WyJd TIL: Not all humans have the same number of muscles (pyramidalis is absent from 20% of us)
a8LXZ TIL that some early botanists thought fern seeds were invisible, and would grant you invisibility too, if you could catch one. Shakespeare even wrote about this belief in his play Henry IV.