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TIL Angus Young, the lead guitarist, and co-founder of AC/DC is a teetotaller!

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9mvD TIL that ‘The Princess Bride’ had a proposed sequel of which one chapter was written called 'Buttercup’s Baby.’ It involved the kidnapping of the baby and ended with Fezzik sacrificing his life to save her.
e0K5g TIL of the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2000+ year old Ancient Greek ‘analogue computer’ that tracks/predicts astronomical positions, keeps dates for early Olympic Games and more! It used bronze, toothed gears and had multiple, individually purposed faces... similar tech wasn’t developed for 1400 years!
koE5 TIL Chef Ramsey left one of his first big kitchen positions because he didn’t like the bullying and rages of others.
W7gJA TIL that the two major political parties/groupings in Victorian Britain used gentlemen's social clubs as their official headquarters, complete with printing presses and mail franking, whilst horse-drawn cabs ferried MPs from the club to Parliament for votes in 8 minutes flat.
8eJkG TIL Snoop Dogg presents a children’s series ‘Doggyland - Kids Songs & Nursery Rhymes’