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TIL Lenora Cazalet, daughter of Jeeves author PG Wodehouse, died after minor gynecological surgery in 1944 London because a German V1 rocket fell near the hospital and overwhelmed them with casualties so no one responded to Lenora's overnight call button pleas to stem her post-op bleeding.

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RZ14 TIL director Alfonso Cuarón assigned Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson to write autobiographical essays about their characters in Harry Potter. Rupert Grint didn’t deliver his essay. When questioned why, he said, “I’m Ron. Ron wouldn’t do it.”
PwKG TIL that about half of men ejaculate in under two minutes. And the average male expects to have intercourse for 18 minutes.
e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson
MeB1a TIL that Nigerian scam made Emmanuel Nwude $242 million richer. He sold a non-existent airport to Nelson Sakaguchi, a director of bank. Nwude has become Nigeria's fraud kingpin after pulling off one of the biggest 'deals' in history.
1ag7d TIL only one person in recorded history has been struck by a meteorite.