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TIL Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Alec Baldwin and Pierce Brosnan have all narrated Thomas the Tank Engine.

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neNwb TIL the Whopper Jr was created by accident in 1963 by the manager of the first Burger King restaurant in Puerto Rico. The molds for the standard Whopper buns didn't arrive so he used a much smaller local bun. The result was such a success that BK adopted it worldwide and called it the Whopper Jr.
8aAZV TIL about John R Fox, an Officer who ordered an airstrike on himself during the second World War to save and protect his country
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