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TIL that the creator of the Paddington Bear stuffed toy was Jeremy Clarkson’s mother

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QGO6 TIL that in Japan, prisoners on death row are not told when they will be executed until a few hours before they are hanged, and their families are not notified until after they are dead.
W5No TIL that the latin name for the american Plains Bison is “Bison bison bison”
LkYRr TIL scientists applied Einstein's Theory of Relativity to Luke and Leia's journeys to Cloud City in Empire Strikes Back and calculated that Leia would be nearly two years older than Luke
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