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TIL: Some parts of Glasgow have a lower average life expectancy than that of Iraq

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b9DWQ TIL Comedian Eddie Izzard has performed stand-up in French, German, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.
yllp TIL that after starring in SHAUN OF THE DEAD, Simon Pegg was asked by an interviewer interviewer asked if he planned to carry on making films in Britain, to which he replied: ‘Well, I’m not about to go and star in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III.’
b6oZZ TIL C. J. Lewis tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II in 1981 and two years later he tried to escape from psych ward to kill Prince Charles
PYgve TIL that the Bald Eagle (the national bird of the United States) is one of the greatest conservation success stories ever. Populations dwindled in the 1900's due to the insecticide DDT which caused eggs to break. After the banning of DDT, eagles can now be found in 49 out of 50 US states.
yVene TIL The human body contains trillions of microorganisms — outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1 in a humanbody.