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TIL that the actress who played Joanna in “Love Actually” sang so well that they had to edit it to make it seem ‘believable’.

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5YlNQ TIL of George Koval, who, in WWII, was an American soldier that secretly gave info the USSR about the Manhattan Project. In 1999, although living in Russia and having been outed as a spy for nearly a half-century, he applied for an American Veteran's Social Security Cheque. He was denied.
b6y7j TIL Alfred Nobel (creator of dynamite) is thought to have created the prize after an unflattering obituary naming him the “Merchant of Death.”
dXo9 TIL the world was ending in 1806 because someone wrote “Christ is coming” on eggs and stuffed them back into the hen.
yQQMp TIL that surgeons and their staff play music 62-72% of the time while operating on patients
jNDxv TIL the Draugr is an undead creature from Scandinavian saga literature and folktale. Living in their graves or royal palaces, often guarding treasure buried with them; they have magical abilities resembling those of living witches and wizards, such as shape-shifting and controlling the weather.