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TIL that the inspiration for Billy Elliot was an opera singer, Thomas Allen, not a dancer

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MQw8 TIL that a mailman managed to impost himself as a Senior physician at a German psychiatry and even held lectures for medical doctors without raising suspicion
VBJLQ TIL PFC William Thompson was the first of two African Americans in Korea to receive the Medal of Honor since the Spanish-American War. Both Medals were awarded posthumously.
P1aRV TIL in WWI 'Male' tanks had cannon and 'Female' tanks had machine guns.
4KbN TIL when a foreign dignitary stays over at Blair House (the sister version of White House), their national flag is flown over the premises and the area is considered foreign soil
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