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TIL Ingmar Bergman and Ingrid Bergman are not husband and wife nor brother and sister nor related at all

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X0k18 TIL Father Alec Reid, a Catholic priest who secretly worked to end decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland between 1960s-1998, unsuccessfully tried to stop two British soldiers (Protestant side) from being shot by the IRA, while carrying crucial secret letter outlining peace negotiations.
QJdEe TIL when the writers of LOST were pitching the show to ABC, the network was very concerned about the show being too serialized and genre based so they lied to ABC that you could drop in and watch from any episode, the show would be shot on a soundstage and there will be "no ultimate mystery".
N79ae TIL SOS doesn't actually stand for anything at all, it's just very distinctive and easy to write in Morse code
VO1D TIL in the 16th century the Pope declared Capybara’s as fish, so his followers could eat it, this stands to this day
RGkj TIL: The Texas Railroad Commission Has Nothing to do With Railroads. It Regulates Oil and Gas in the State and Maintains its Name to Avoid Critical Oversight.