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TIL Tom Hardy reads bedtime stories for the BBC's series CBeebies

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V5AQ TIL workers excavating the World Trade Center site in 2010 dug up a ship from the 1700s made from the same wood as Independence Hall, where the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were signed.
KYMA4 TIL older woman sometimes have purple hair because they have added purple pigments to balance out yellow tones. This makes hair white unless the over do it - which is why it ends up purple.
9w7Jm TIL that in 1990 an unemployed French nuclear physicist named André Gardes, who believed he was the rightful holder of the Seigneur's title, attempted to single handedly invade the Isle of Sark
xpmD TIL Travis Kalanick, billionaire founder and CEO of Uber, is the #2 ranked Wii Tennis player in the world
M7Vrm TIL of Alexander Carlisle who was responsible for the lifeboats and watertight doors on The Titanic. He resigned after his recommendations that more lifeboats be fitted to The Titanic was refused.