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TIL Tom Lester beat out 400 actors for the role of Eb on Green Acres, despite having no acting experience, because he was the only one auditioning who could actually milk a cow

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QJMEk TIL that after North Korea captured a group of Navy officers, the officers raised their middle finger, telling their captors it was a “Hawaiian good luck sign.”
OVd4 TIL that when Michael Foot was put in charge of a nuclear disarmament committee, The Times announced the news with the headline “Foot Heads Arms Body”
A8O4 TIL of “canary trapping”, a method for exposing an information leak by giving different versions of a sensitive document to each of several suspects and seeing which version gets leaked.
WEP4 TIL that not even a doctor can tell the difference between the lungs of a smoker vs. a non-smoker just by looking at them. Smoking cigarettes does not turn your lungs black
gMO78 TIL In 2011 A middle aged man got heckled by some teens who he lost a game of COD to, so he found them irl and tried to choke one of them out