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TIL Kate Winslet keeps her Oscar in the bathroom so her guests can hold it and make acceptance speeches in the mirror without feeling self conscious

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Z8rQG TIL that Jamie Farr, Alan Alda and Mike Farrell who starred in the tv show MAS*H all actually were in the military and served in Korea (after the war). Farr wore his actual dog tags on the show
NvEP TIL that in 1894, the London Times predicted that London would be under nine feet of horse manure by 1950
a9YL TIL that Muhammad Ali once opened a fish and chip shop in Coventry
mxW0o TIL about the Tsar Bomba, a Soviet nuclear bomb that was deemed too powerful to use. It was 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined and 10 times more powerful than all the munitions expended during WW2.
MeVDB TIL that Diarrhea killed approximately as many people as HIV and AIDS in 2012