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TIL that for 30 mins they turned off the lights in Iceland city enabling people to see night sky whilst a radio programme told them what to look out for

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By4y TIL Molly Pitcher manned a cannon during the Revolutionary War when her husband fainted from heat stroke or injury. She didn’t back down, even when a cannonball shot the skirt from between her legs.
daZ TIL that the average person consumes 0 spiders in his/her lifetime
rNVOx TIL Tom Leykis, who was a famous radio talk show host in the Los Angeles area, was originally cast to play Dr. Marvin Monroe on The Simpsons, but was subsequently fired before the show aired.
eKkL TIL Sears used to sell entire houses in a ‘Do It Yourselves’ kit!
GAM6G TIL that WB wanted the opening credits cut from the Watchmen script. So, Snyder cut it and filmed it in secret without a script, hoping Warner Bros would let him keep it once they saw it (they did)