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TIL that after a mention that Paul McCartney liked Jelly Babies, fans started throwing them at the Beatles during live concerts. In the USA, fans started throwing jelly beans at them after mistaking them to be the same thing. One concert had to be stopped twice because the Beatles kept getting hit.

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6jEW TIL all British Army armored vehicles must have an electric kettle so the crew can brew tea without getting out. This rule was made after a WWII ambush, where a British tank squadron lost 29 vehicles to a surprise attack by four German tanks while the British crews were outside having morning tea
X00Nk TIL HPV can affect men as well. The virus causes 95% of anal cancer, about 64% of oropharyngeal (tonsils, throat, base of tongue) cancers, and rarer cancers, such as penile cancers. There is currently no approved screening test for HPV in men.
O0r4 TIL Natalie Portman skipped the Phantom Menace premier so she could for study her high school finals.
kOxWg TIL WWII Submarine Captain John Philip Cromwell stoically went down with his stricken sub Sculpin rather than allow himself to be captured by the Japanese. Cpt Cromwell had knowledge of top secret highly sensitive Allied war plans that the enemy may have extracted from him through drugs or torture,
bLnN TIL that a small japanese railway company was so financially troubled that they started selling rice crackers, to the point that profits from selling rice crackers were double than those from the railway.