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TIL the guns on the HMS Belfast, the battleship moored on the Thames, are aimed at a service station in North London

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M7xjK TIL after being scolded by a woman who felt that his shoes were too expensive for kids, Shaq forwent a $40 million deal with Reebok & signed one with Walmart. He then brought in designers from Reebok so that his Walmart shoes would look costlier than the $20 price. Over 400 million pairs were sold.
Wk8wB TIL the song Purple Rain is a live recording performed by Prince's band at a 1983 benefit concert
XrYP TIL that Shania Twain divorced her husband when he was caught having an affair with her best friend. Twain ended up marrying her now former best friend’s ex-husband.
JnN4 TIL that when Mossad agents discovered Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hiding in Argentina, they kidnapped him off the street in broad daylight and smuggled him back to Israel on a commercial flight by drugging him and dressing him as a flight attendant.
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