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TIL that towards the end of WW2, malingerer's guides on to how to appear ill, disguised as boxes of matches, were distributed among British troops in Italy. This with the intent to discourage the soldiers in risking their lives on the battlefield, find a reason to don't fight, without be dishonoured

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Yr0B TIL James Earl Jones used to use Darth Vader as a CB radio handle while traveling cross country and spoke in character. “The truck drivers would really freak out — for them, it was Darth Vader. I had to stop doing that.”
N7eab TIL Popeye muttered under his breath because his animation was done before the voices were recorded and the voice actor ad-libbed stuff to help his dialog synch up
p8Yde It's not that they can't. They just don't need to, says Mike Murray, a veterinarian at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Birds have the anatomical and physical ability to pass gas, he explains, "but if I saw gas in a bird's gastrointestinal tract on an x-ray, I'd suspect that something abnormal was going on in there."
dDeYd TIL about KC Paul, an Indian man who has spent almost 40 years trying to prove that the sun revolves around the earth
VmX4 TIL, that in many states it is perfectly legal to refuse to hire someone because they are too ugly, fat, skinny or short.