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TIL In 2005 Benedict Cumberbatch was abducted and held at gunpoint by armed men in South Africa. After being let go he was eventually rescued by a stranger. He commented: “It taught me that you come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life less ordinary.”

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NXLR1 TIL During the American Civil War the town of Winchester Virginia changed hands over a dozen times between the Union and Confederates due to it’s strategic location in the Shenandoah Valley. A British observer called Winchester the "shuttlecock of the Confederacy."
Z8vAa TIL during Hitler's childhood, the Jewish doctor that was treating his mother for cancer reduced his prices so she could afford treatment. Hitler never forgot this and gave him special protection during WWII as a "Noble Jew". Doctor Eduard Bloch ended up outliving Hitler himself.
wmp8 TIL on Valentine’s day 2014, an unnamed man sabotaged a special screening of “Beijing Love Story” by booking every odd seat in the theater, preventing couples from sitting together
a8P8o TIL There is a baseball player with name spelled so uniquely, that he is nicknamed "The Password" due to his first name resembling an auto-generated secure password.
5veR TIL Jeff Bridges said of working on Iron Man, “They had no script, man. We would show up for big scenes every day and we wouldn’t know what we were going to say. We would go into our trailer and call up writers on the phone, ‘You got any ideas?’”