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TIL that Michael Caine spotted Shakira Baksh in a advertisement for Maxwell House Coffee, tracked her down and married her two years later. They’ve been together ever since.

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vPK74 TIL Half-Life 2 has a burnt corpse model textured using photos of a real dead and badly burnt body
oBxxY TIL Guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier take an average of six hours to prepare their uniform. They are also required to memorize 35 pages of information about Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, including the locations of 300 graves and who is buried in each one.
WkLbA TIL the last words of 22nd and 24th U.S president Grover Cleveland, “I have tried so hard, to do so right.” Reported by his biographers shortly after a heart attack.
6Lg8 TIL that wallabies in Tasmania were eating poppies and running around in circles, making tracks that were mistaken for UFO crop circles.
dV8B TIL Winston Churchill’s epitaph states, “I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”