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TIL that the actress who spoke the line "not bloody likely" in the original production of Pygmalion was risking her career.

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jNeQv TIL that the Ancient Greeks would have treated the Illiad and the Odyssey as part of a series of eight books by various authors. However, only Homer's books have survived in full, perhaps because they were the most popular.
wpGJ TIL There is only one pig in all of Afghanistan. His name is Khanzir, which is Arabic for pig, and he lives in the Kabul Zoo.
oReeR TIL that after five divers became trapped in a Paria Fuel Trading Company oil pipeline, when making repairs to the pipe, with only one of them surviving, Paria admitted they had no rescue plan, citing that they had 'no legal responsibility to rescue the men'
jXEa TIL it is predicated that all multicellular life on Earth will die out from a lack of CO2 in the atmosphere in 800 million years, 6.59 billion years before the earth is engulfed by the red giant sun
XLjR TIL a man received 5 years in prison after being caught sprinkling his feces onto baked goods at a grocery store.