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TIL about Eddie Hall, the only person to ever complete the 24 Hours of Le Mans race solo

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EgEld TIL that the Teletubbies from the BBC Children's series had a hit single - "Teletubbies say Eh-oh!" - which reached Number One on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in December 1997. It remained in the top 100 for a total of 41 weeks and sold well enough to be certified double platinum.
N9E8 TIL that sword swallowing is not an illusion of any kind: the performer actually pushes the sword down their oesophagus and into their stomach. 29 deaths resulting from sword swallowing have been reported since 1880.
AD4wB TIL that Britain during the Palaeolithic period was intermittently populated due to glaciation driving the humans out multiple times.
KJLw TIL that in 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
QJB6L TIL George Lucas actually didn't have a plan for where the story would go when the original Star Wars films came out.