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b6EG7 TIL that, the astronomer Patrick Moore, whose fiancée was killed by a German bomb in 1943, said in 2012 that “We must take care. The Germans will try again, given another chance” and “the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.”
OGQAY TIL Celine Dion’s song It’s All Coming Back To Me Now was originally performed by a group called Pandora’s Box. They only had one album, and included vocals by the actress who played public defender Billie Young in Night Court.
x6bY0 Today I learned the longest running joke in the movie Airplane! is the jet has the sound of propeller engines.
djnj TIL that infants are grouchy around 6-9months because their hormones spike to pubertal levels and is referred to as “mini puberty”. Hormones then drop back to normal until the age pre-teens go through ‘real’ puberty.
9wlO7 TIL Australian serial killer Ivan Milat lost 25kg from a failed hunger strike in prison when he was denied a PlayStation